Black youth in the United States disproportionately experience fatal drowning at rates up to five times higher than their ...

Drowning is a leading cause of accidental death for children, especially impacting minority communities due to historical and socioeconomic factors. Learning to swim is crucial for water safety and ...

The snow is melting, and the cold temperatures are warming up, which can only mean one thing: summer is coming! Summer and ...

NEW YORK -- Every summer, children drown at local pools, beaches and rivers. That's why CBS2 is dedicating this week to water safety. We begin our weeklong series with the troubling history around ...

Every child should learn to swim. However, there are barriers we must overcome to make that happen. They are alarming: Factors that determine children’s safety in water include economic status, ...

Are you a parent who wants to keep your kids safe this summer? The best thing you can do is teach them to swim. I say this as a nonalarmist mom dedicated to actual safety, instead of security theater ...

Blue Tide Aquatics swimmers are champs in and out of the water. The high school-aged swimmers volunteer two days a week to teach children swimming at the 2600 Aldine-Westfield branch of the Salvation ...

Warmer weather is finally here in the Northern Hemisphere, and with it, many pools and beaches are opening for the summer. That’s great for families who want to spend time by the water, but it’s also ...

The DEM is offering another round of grants to providers of swim lessons for kids from minority or low-income backgrounds.

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 ...

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, ...

This story about swimming in Paris is part of How Paris Moves, a series of dispatches about communities and social change in France through the lens of the 2024 Summer Olympics. It’s another Friday ...