A metro area swim instructor is warning the parents of young children to ensure they can swim before taking them to the pool ...

Time at the pool can be a fun way to cool down, but it also poses dangers for drowning. Here are some tips from experts for pool safety.

Increase supervised community swimming spaces. The CPSC report shows that 80 percent of child drownings occurred in residential settings. That means most kids died in their own home or that of a ...

These seemingly innocuous devices give responsible parents a false sense of security with the assumption that the inflatables will keep their kids safe and help teach them to swim. But in practice ...

Autism affects an estimated 1 in 31 U.S. children. Their water safety has gotten occasional public attention after tragedies ...

As a teenager, I spent my summers working as a lifeguard and swim instructor, teaching little kids how to float on their backs in between bouts of pool-scanning and suntanning (sorry, skin).

It was what it looked like, a starter swimming class. But here, instructors worked one-on-one or even two to a child. Some held cards to help kids communicate with teachers by pointing instead of ...