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Do the experts suggest a child toss a floatie or pole out to a drowning person?

Then they were together on a swan-shaped floatie.

The floatie fell off at one point.

An arm floatie can pop and strand a weak swimmer far from a wall or shallow water.

It sinks a bit until the floatie holds it.

"It would be nice if there were a day when you could bring a floatie toy or a noodle," said Barbara Heisler Williams.

More disturbing was the Fierstein moment — he donned trunks and a floatie to introduce a live performance of "Hairspray" from a Royal Caribbean cruise ship.

Cue aqua number (Rihanna's "We Found Love," performed by the New Directions, including Artie on a floatie!), heartfelt proposal and waterworks.

For instance, rather than ride a dumb little dinghy in the wading pool, he'll construct a massive Titanic-like behemoth out of random floatie toys-only to have it sink dramatically, with him on board.

Mike Powell's Spin praised Ocean's writing abilities, musing "my 'TV ain't HD, that's too real', the narrator of 'Sweet Life' complains, then returns to his swimming-pool floatie."

Pretty much every celebrity and it-person on Instagram was pictured lounging on a blow up swan or drifting in a pool in the middle of a pretzel-shaped floatie, so it's appropriate that the ubiquitous Smith would share the spotlight with 2015's most popular pool party accessories.

When it comes time to launch, the skipper ties a rope with a trailing floatie around the glider's tail (if something goes awry, that floatie will save Cooney the embarrassment of losing a robot worth tens of thousands of dollars).