May is Water Safety Month and teaching your child how to swim could be a matter of life or death. With summer just around the corner, many families will be heading to the water, making swimming skills ...

Kids are flocking to the pools as the Philadelphia area continues to experience a heat wave, making water safety even more important. At Nile Swim Club in Yeadon, a free swim program is underway to ...

In the drowning prevention community, we dread hearing the other F-word: floaties. These seemingly innocuous devices give responsible parents a false sense of security with the assumption that the ...

WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) - According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), more than 4,000 people drown every year in the United States. The CDC reports that the number of people who die by ...

In the U.S., each year from 2020 through 2022, drowning has resulted in over 4,500 reported deaths. That’s an increase of 500 deaths per year from 2019. (Photo: Getty) Are you, your family members or ...

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — In an airy indoor pool with fish cutouts on the walls, a group of small children bobbed, floated and tentatively flutter-kicked. It was what it looked like, a starter ...

In an airy indoor pool with fish cutouts on the walls, a group of small children bobbed, floated and tentatively flutter-kicked.It was what it looked like, a starter swimming class. But here, ...

POTTSTOWN — The YMCA is provided free swimming lessons to more than 100 young children this summer as part of a program sponsored by several organizations in town. Some of them gathered during lessons ...

At a swim meet just outside St. Louis, heads turned when a team of young swimmers walked through the rec center with their parents in tow. A supportive mom kept her eye on the clock while the Makos ...