Category: Safety

A four-year-old boy from Houston, Texas has died of “dry drowning” almost a week after he last went swimming. Francisco Delgado Jr. told ABC 13 his family went swimming at the Texas City Dike with his son Frankie, 4, on Memorial Day weekend. About a week later, Frankie complained of shoulder pain and woke up a few…

Sign your child up for summer fun with swim lessons at the Y!

A 6-year-old girl is dead after an apparent drowning at the Lake Elmo Swimming Pond on Sunday, Jeff Wagner reports (2:20).

Drowning is the second-leading cause of accidental deaths in children. Mario Vittone, a former U.S. Coast Guard officer, water safety expert and author of the Slate article “Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning,” joins CBSN to discuss how to spot someone who is drowning, and the supervision required to keep children safe in the water.

A 10-year-old boy managed to walk away with a few scratches Saturday after he was thrown from a slide at Dublin’s newly opened, $43 million water park, The Wave, according to the East Bay Times. The Emerald Plunge, a three-story slide with an 80-degree angle drop, had only been running for 90 minutes prior to the incident.…

A 2-year-old boy died after crawling through the doggie door at his North Carolina home and falling into a backyard swimming pool. WTVD reported that Jacob Hoagland got outside through a doggie door Thursday morning and fell into an above-ground pool that was attached to the Hope Mills house by a deck. Authorities said the…

It’s important children know how to swim, and kids as young as a few months old can start learning.

Swimming safety is starting at an early age with SWIMkids USA in Mesa.

It feels like summer and soon it will be summer, with more children wanting to enjoy Minnesota’s lakes, rivers and pools. For children under the age of 6, the leading cause of death is accidental drowning.