Swimming is one of the great joys of summer, but for too many kids the water can turn deadly. Drowning is the second-leading cause of accidental deaths of children under the age of 15, according to ...

DEAR HELOISE: We live in Arizona, and my husband wanted to put a pool in our backyard. I agreed only if all three kids learned to swim and my husband agreed to teach them. Three years after the pool ...

(WSVN) - A group in South Florida is making a splash when it comes to keeping children safe in the water, especially kids with special needs. 7’s Vanessa Medina introduces us to these lifesaving ...

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 ...

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 ...

In honor of National Water Safety Month, Pool Scouts has partnered with the Hope Floats Foundation to donate more than 1,500 swim lessons for children living in poverty. Local Pool Scouts Owner, Shane ...

I have been swimming for most of my adult life. Since I was four years old. I swam for the Napa Swim Club, and continued until I was fourteen or fifteen. It is therefore particularly disturbing for me ...

NAVAJO DAM, N.M. — Turning tragedy into something positive. That’s what one family in the Four Corners has done after they lost their 6-year-old son in 2014. He drowned during a trip to Navajo Lake to ...

MOUNT LAUREL, N.J. (CBS) -- According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, drowning is the number one cause of death for children between the ages of 1-4 but swim lessons can save lives.

Well before the U.S. Olympic Swimming Trials open at Lucas Oil Stadium and well after they are over, the event will have a long-term impact on Indianapolis. Thanks to an agreement between the Indiana ...

HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — The City of Harlingen was awarded $192,732 in federal funds to be used for free swimming lessons for neighborhood children. The funds are meant to be distributed ...