A lifeguard struggles to cope with his wife’s suicide, his ethics are tested when he discovers her rapist drowning at the local beach

Good point, will revise. Maybe better for a short...

I hope this comes across as creative criticism - I apologise if it sounds too direct or harsh.

The logline you've submitted is not an accurate reflection of what your movie is about. If a producer bought your script on the strength of this logline, and then they read it, they would think - this film is really about a man who tries to help his wife through suicidal depression after she is raped, and it's FRAMED by an interesting moral dilemma. But it's certainly not ABOUT that dilemma.

It sounds like, from what you've described, the part that your logline describes is going to be the first and last few minutes of the film, and then everything else in between is not what has been described.

Cheers Nicholas

The start of the story is of the the man drowning, we see him struggling, then we see someone on a surfboard meters away watching, his face blank. Then we go back 4 wks to the man on the surfboard, we see he is a lifeguard, teaching kids to swim.
since the first scene is of him not helping the drowning man, I need to show him doing something nice to get the audience to like him and question...what happened to him?
We meet his wife, happily married, trying for kids etc. There life as they know it,
She gets attacked and it all goes down hill from there, who did it, etc...it leads to the scene at the beach.