Category: Safety

It’s an open secret in the black community – blacks can’t swim. And the generalization doesn’t end there. The stereotyping as to why seems less important than the life threatening data: 70 percent of black children don’t know how to float, tread water or even splash in the shallow end of the pool. Atlanta rapper…

Dr. Sarah Denny, American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) spokesperson and an emergency room pediatrician, offers parents tips on how to keep children safe in and around pools. For more information, please visit AAP’s parenting website HealthyChildren.org: http://ow.ly/llDf300Ct9i.

Lifeguards put out double red flags near Pier 60 in Clearwater on Tuesday morning warning swimmers not to enter the water.

London school students who were trapped on a beach in Kent were rescued by helicopter and lifeboats after they used their mobile phones as beacons. The 34 teenagers and two adults were rescued and taken to safety after they got lost and became disoriented during a coastal walk between St Margaret’s Bay and Dover Harbour.…

Police are looking for Ceazar Kainz who has been declared a missing person

A member of the Sherrills Ford-Terrell Fire and Rescue’s dive team was killed Monday afternoon as he and two other divers searched for a swimmer who had gone missing a day earlier. Authorities identified the diver as Bradley Long, 28. They haven’t said what led to the diver’s death or to the injury of the…

Police are searching for a man who went missing who disappeared after becoming separated from his boat while swimming. https://youtu.be/8mNmUAe2dzc

The “Seven Mile Miracle,” a stretch of coastline on Oahu’s North Shore, is the holy grail of big wave surf spots. It is also one of the most dangerous surf breaks on Earth. The lifeguards who patrol the beaches make upward of 1,000 saves per year, sometimes as many as 30 in one day. Tau…

Two people were hospitalized in two separate incidents over the weekend after suffering electrical shock in swimming pools, according to local officials. A New Jersey man is in critical condition after he suffered electrical shock in a motel pool on Saturday, ABC reported. A day after the incident in N.J., a Pennsylvania girl was also…