Category: Safety

A Volusia County family is dealing with tragedy after a 3-year-old boy drowned in the backyard swimming pool.

Johnathan Cureton jumped from a bridge into Mountain Island Lake last week, but never resurfaced. Alivia Cureton said she knew her brother was adventurous and lived life to the fullest. But she said she had mixed feelings on July 31 when her brother told her he wanted to jump off the bridge to shoot a…

A 15-year-old Minneapolis boy died Wednesday in a drowning at Lake Nokomis after he and a group of friends went out for a swim, Nina Moini reports. Courtesy of WCCO – CBS Minnesota on YouTube

Scottish Swimming would like to ensure that #everychildcanswim. Watch medallists from the XX Commonwealth Games in Glasgow talk about when they learned to swim and why it is important for every child to learn to swim.

Swimmers competing in the Dwight Crum Pier-to-Pier Swim had more than just other competitors to worry about.

Babies learn to swim in Dubai. Babies at the Active Sports Academy acquire an important core skill in swimming that can potentially save their lives.

Three lifeguards at Henne Strand in Denmark had an unusually tough Friday, when they had to save 12 people out of the water in just a few hours. 10 of the 12 are thought to have been in life threatening danger, because of an unusually strong outwards current. See the video interview here on TV2…

Berwick RNLI have issued a warning to children spotted swimming in the River Tweed during the recent warm weather. Lifeboat personnel are concerned that many are unaware of the risks they are exposing theselves to due to the strong tidal currents. Hazel Bettison of Berwick RNLI said: “We’ve had reports of children enjoying the nice…