Before going any further, here’s the main thing parents should know about swimming lessons: all children should have them. Every year, over 4,500 people die from drowning in the United States — and, ...

ST. LOUIS — A staggering statistic from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reveals that Black children ages 10 to 14 drown nearly eight times more often than their white peers in swimming ...

JAMES ISLAND, S.C. (WCSC) - School is out and summer is just around the corner, which means you may have a few fun days at Folly Beach or the pool already planned, but with that, there may also be ...

A group of 5- and 6-year-olds used all their strength and skills to splash their beloved swim instructor, Cheryl Waites, as she laughed and teased the kids to splash harder. Waites was one of the ...

TOLEDO, Ohio (WTVG) - A team effort is making quite a splash when it comes to providing life-changing lessons in the water. The collaboration is bringing swim safety education to students from six ...

May is water safety month in Michigan and as cities and residents transition to the summer season, Huron-Clinton Metroparks are working to raise the funding needed to reverse a terrible trend by ...

Wild Rivers Waterpark will join a global initiative to combat childhood drowning by hosting the World’s Largest Swimming Lesson on Thursday, June 26. The event, themed “Mission Possible: Swim Lessons ...

TYLER, Texas (KLTV) - As summer holidays approach and more families head to pools, lakes, and beaches, drowning deaths reach their highest peak of the year. To help reduce drownings and increase ...

A little over two years ago, in a fit of what I now see was post-retirement mania, I did something that had been kicking around my head for a while: I got my Red Cross lifeguard certification, ...

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