Apotheosis

Kind sight for the weary or fraught swimmer below -- the waiting kayak --

Succor, or -- more colloquially -- Sofia:

MUSE

Across the pale stillness
of water keel-carven, these lovely eyes of desire
drag the ship to her doom.

--Simonides of Ceos

(translated by Richmond Lattimore)

-- I like the description, the phrasing and the images themselves, but I also like the paradox.  The water is calm, and yet the ship goes to its doom.
All for love, or desire, which isn't the same thing, is it? --

(TV screen-shot from John Stockwell's Into the Blue.)

Somehow, this juxtaposition is working for me, though perhaps an eye-to-eye shot of Sophia Loren would work well too: Boy On A Dolphin.