The Love Haters

Katie Vaughn, a mid-level video producer, is worried she is about to lose her job after her boss, Karen Sullivan, sent an email saying that a third of their company will be laid off. Her supervisor, Cole Hutcheson, proposes that she join him on a project to film a recruitment video for the United States Coast Guard rescue swimmers in Key West, Florida. Without knowing anything about the Coast Guard, Key West, or swimming, Katie agrees, knowing that this might help her keep her job. Cole mentions that he almost gave the assignment to a co-worker named Jaden but pulled his offer after learning that Jaden couldn’t swim.

Though Katie is open about her lack of knowledge about the Coast Guard, she hides from Cole the fact that she can’t swim either. Cole says that swimming is necessary because the Coast Guard rescue swimmers fly helicopters above the ocean to meet drowning victims, and if the helicopter crashes, it would flip upside down, and the passengers would be required to swim out. Though Cole assures Katie this rarely happens, all people who work on this project will be required to do a simulation of this emergency for insurance purposes.