Category: Safety

Swimmers are asked to be careful.

Ocean City officials say a 76-year-old swimmer died in a beach accident when a large wave knocked him down. Ocean City communications manager Jessica Waters said authorities responded to the beach Sunday for a report of a distressed swimmer. Waters said the man was in knee-deep water when he was knocked down by a large…

An Iraqi migrant has drowned trying to swim to England wearing an improvised buoyancy aid made of plastic bottles. The unnamed man’s body was found at a wind farm off the coast of Zeebrugge in Belgium. He was identified using fingerprints and officials said they thought he had been refused asylum in Germany. West Flanders’…

The 23-year old man hospitalized after he was struck by lightning Friday afternoon while swimming in the Atlantic Ocean off Kitty Hawk remains in critical condition. The incident happened near the Kitty Hawk Road intersection around 2:50 p.m., as a thunderstorm that developed over the Albemarle Sound moved across the northern beaches. Read OBC Today

A group of teen boys snuck into a Pa. swim club pool after hours, but none of them could swim, resulting in terrible tragedy. When a 13-year-old went to the bottom of the deep end, the rest ran away leaving him to drown, police say. As 6ABC reports, it happened at the Folcroft Swim Club in Delaware…

Randolph Donovan and Kashief Hamilton are being hailed as heroes for helping to keep the woman from going underwater off the coast of St. Thomas.