Category: Safety

A man had to swim to shore after his pickup truck was submerged in the ocean in Wildwood on Wednesday. Katie Johnston reports. | CBS Local News  

About 30 teens and young adults braved the cold ocean waters at the beach near the San Clemente Pier on Sunday morning, Feb. 23, as they competed for spots with the city’s Marine Safety Division lifeguards.

The Detroit Public Schools Community District has placed a swimming teacher on administrative leave after the death of a student.

A student at Detroit’s Mumford High School died Monday after he was pulled from the pool at the school, district officials said. “Preliminary findings establish that upon discovering the student submerged in the swimming pool, the certified swimming instructor began administering CPR,” the Detroit Public Schools Community District said in a statement. Paramedics rushed the…

Lifeguards at Mbotyi, Msikaba and Mkhambathi beaches near Lusikisiki in the Eastern Cape have not been paid. The guards say they’ve not been paid for four months. The sector came under the spotlight in December when lifeguards at Coffee Bay embarked on a strike – which resulted in the death of one swimmer.

Last year, a group of YMCA volunteers raised funds to travel to a coastal town in Nicaragua to teach swim lessons and to empower a community in critical need of water safety resources.

A brother and sister in Britain drowned during a game to see who could swim the farthest out from shore — an incident ruled a “tragic accident” in an inquest this week, according to new reports. Malika Shamas, 14, was swimming near Clacton Pier in Essex last Aug. 8, when she got to a point…