Yep, here in FL, we have lots of water....and it's a liquid even in January. 'Bout half the time when we look into the lake there's something looking back-so swimming for a downed plane is WAY down on the list of possible options. My club keeps a long hooked pole on hand, and a spinning rod with a weighted streamlined float that we can cast WAAY out. We sometimes keep an R/C boat around so we can pull out the line from the spinning reel and loop around the plane even farther out. But about half the time, the plane winds up in a place that requires manipulation or brute force to retrieve it. The moral of this story: Always have a man-carrying boat on hand. It'll work EVERY time. ANything else is a maybe.