Tom Buchanan is described as \"the best swimmer among us\" in the novel \"The Great Gatsby\".

In the poem \"The Swimmer\" by Elizabeth Bishop, the swimmer's ultimate destination is the ocean.

Claude Monet's painting \"Bathers at La Grenouillère\" depicts a group of women swimming in a river.

In the novel \"The Old Man and the Sea\" by Ernest Hemingway, the old fisherman who struggles with a giant marlin is named Santiago.

Roald Dahl's short story \"The Swimmer\" features a character who can swim through solid objects.

In the film \"Jaws\", the police chief who is determined to stop the killer shark is named Martin Brody.

Richard Wagner's opera \"Siegfried\" features a character named \"Siegfried\" who is a skilled swimmer.

In the novel \"The Lord of the Rings\" by J.R.R. Tolkien, Frodo and Sam must swim across the Anduin River to reach Mordor.

William Wordsworth's poem \"Lines Written a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey\" describes a solitary swimmer in a lake.

In the film \"The Shape of Water\", the mute janitor who falls in love with a captured sea creature is named Elisa Esposito.

Salman Rushdie's novel \"Midnight's Children\" features a character named \"Saleem Sinai\" who is born with webbed feet.

In the film \"Finding Nemo\", the clownfish who is searching for his lost son is named Marlin.

John Milton's poem \"Paradise Lost\" describes the Archangel Michael swimming across the sea.

In the novel \"The Life of Pi\" by Yann Martel, the Indian boy who is stranded on a lifeboat with a Bengal tiger is named Pi Patel.

J.M.W. Turner's painting \"The Fighting Temeraire\" depicts a group of fishermen struggling to stay afloat in a stormy sea.