Yes, because it is completely impossible to swim underwater where you might breathe in water and drown. :-/

Fark moderator: Death is hilarious.

I can only assume you used "oxymoron" to avoid an irony war.

/It's like 1000 H when all you need is O₂

Could it be that said swimmer stopped swimming and then drowned?

Or would that be too much detail for your pithy news article?

Climber falls.

Sailor sinks.

Electrician electrocuted.

Subby beaten to death by his own headline.

oldebayer: Climber falls.

Sailor sinks.

Electrician electrocuted.

Subby beaten to death by his own headline.

lol

Dumbest. Headline. Ever.

Dumb subby, when you stop swimming you are no longer a swimmer. You are a floater.

Lessee....

I had a former roommate, a championship swimmer, who drowned.

A good friend, a top-class climber, who was killed in a climbing accident. A buddy of his died the same way a few years earlier.

Is it the MORON part of the headline we need to discuss?

Wut?

Came for the "what drowning may look like" pic, left disappointed.

I do no think that word means, what subby thinks it means...

Really more of a 'sinker'.

merzbow: Came for the "what drowning may look like" pic, left disappointed.

Maybe he was competing in the 400-metre breaststroke for non-swimmers.

/coverage will resume once they finish fishing the corpses out
//Next, the marathon for the incontinent
///And now, the larch.

A friend played "fluter" in a Scrabble game. I hadn't realized it was a real word, thinking that one could only be a flautist. Apparently, though, a fluter is one who is fluting, whereas a flautist is one who regularly flutes.

If we had more words like "flautist," we wouldn't have headlines like this.

Gyrfalcon: Lessee....

I had a former roommate, a championship swimmer, who drowned.

A good friend, a top-class climber, who was killed in a climbing accident. A buddy of his died the same way a few years earlier.

Is it the MORON part of the headline we need to discuss?

Oooor maybe we need to discuss the fact that people around you keep dying in oxymoronic fashions? Hopefully the rest of your friends are porn stars.

Hung_Solo: Gyrfalcon: Lessee....

I had a former roommate, a championship swimmer, who drowned.

A good friend, a top-class climber, who was killed in a climbing accident. A buddy of his died the same way a few years earlier.

Is it the MORON part of the headline we need to discuss?

Oooor maybe we need to discuss the fact that people around you keep dying in oxymoronic fashions? Hopefully the rest of your friends are porn stars.

You want them to get f*cked to death? Man, you're just sick.

Terrible headline, subby.

Gyrfalcon: Hung_Solo: Gyrfalcon: Lessee....

I had a former roommate, a championship swimmer, who drowned.

A good friend, a top-class climber, who was killed in a climbing accident. A buddy of his died the same way a few years earlier.

Is it the MORON part of the headline we need to discuss?

Oooor maybe we need to discuss the fact that people around you keep dying in oxymoronic fashions? Hopefully the rest of your friends are porn stars.

You want them to get f*cked to death? Man, you're just sick.

Well, if they're gonna go anyway, might as well be for something awesome. I mean, really, what do you want me to say? Hopefully they are firefighters? That'd just be messed up.

Gyrfalcon: Hung_Solo: Gyrfalcon: Lessee....

I had a former roommate, a championship swimmer, who drowned.

A good friend, a top-class climber, who was killed in a climbing accident. A buddy of his died the same way a few years earlier.

Is it the MORON part of the headline we need to discuss?

Oooor maybe we need to discuss the fact that people around you keep dying in oxymoronic fashions? Hopefully the rest of your friends are porn stars.

You want them to get f*cked to death? Man, you're just sick.

If ya gotta go, I can think of worse ways.

Hung_Solo: porn stars.

Tragically, man collects life insurance in money shot accident.

Nowhere in the article does it say the man could swim.

I bet subby says 'random' a lot too.

Headline flatlines

Drowner swims?

Just as I read the the headline, I found a fly in my chardonnay. Isn't it oxymoronic, don'tcha think?

Hung_Solo: Oooor maybe we need to discuss the fact that people around you keep dying in oxymoronic fashions? Hopefully the rest of your friends are porn stars.

Into snuff films, are we?

Gyrfalcon: Lessee....

I had a former roommate, a championship swimmer, who drowned.

A good friend, a top-class climber, who was killed in a climbing accident. A buddy of his died the same way a few years earlier.

Is it the MORON part of the headline we need to discuss?

Seems to me like you're bad luck.

ultraholland: Hung_Solo: Oooor maybe we need to discuss the fact that people around you keep dying in oxymoronic fashions? Hopefully the rest of your friends are porn stars.

Into snuff films, are we?

Yikes, went kind off in a bit different direction with that one.

TheBigBadCrystallineEntity: Dumb subby, when you stop swimming you are no longer a swimmer. You are a floater.

Oh for the love of God, flush it down. Fat Bastard left a floater!

to bad it wasn't venice, he'd be the theme of the party.
http://img517.imageshack.us/img517/9840/elmgreenanddragnet57033.jpg
NSFW floaty dead guy

Seems to me a swimmer is actually more at risk to drown than someone who doesn't go in the water.
And so, if this swimmer gave up swimming, perhaps this submitter should give up submitting?

Oxy moron. Isn't that Rush Limbaugh?

or the submitter of this astounding headline

Swimmer drown now?

There are such things as cramps subby.

"A 52-year-old man has drowned in a swimming hole in the Coromandel."

He may also have suffered a heart attack/stroke.

Oxiclean headline: Billy Mays is dead

So, is that ironic?

That's not an oxymoron, but as someone with a background in Military Intelligence, I'm really getting a kick out of some of these replies...

Slow news day in New Zealand huh?

"but the man was dead before they arrived."

Took all the fun out of the rescue. Bummer.

Sad... Swim or sink... he sunk.

shanrick: Could it be that said swimmer stopped swimming and then drowned

Then it would be former swimmer drowned

Barakku:
/It's like 1000 H when all you need is O2

Nice

Driver crashes?

You're an oxymoran, submitter ;)

Abbreviated.

A five syllable word for the shortest way to say something.

I guess the headline could've been "Drowner drowns", right?

randomstranger: I guess the headline could've been "Drowner drowns", right?

No, it would have been "Drowner swims."

Came for the snarky comments, leaving satisified.

Subby, what a downer.

People drown in water. Who knew?!