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Category: Safety

  • Experts Remind Residents Of Swimming Dangers

    Experts Remind Residents Of Swimming Dangers

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    See WICS Swimming is a way to escape the heat and have some fun during the summer months. However, now is also the time of year where accidental drowning is the leading cause of death among children between 1-and-4 years old. Sangamon County coroner, Cinda Edwards, pronounced the drowning death of a 3-year-old boy from…

  • Boy, 16, Reports Shark Bite in Delaware

    Boy, 16, Reports Shark Bite in Delaware

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    See 6abc A 16-year-old boy says he was bitten by a shark while swimming at Delaware’s Cape Henlopen State Park. The shark attack happened around 5:00 p.m. Monday. The teenager, Andrew Vance of Delmar, was wading in 5 feet of water when the shark bit his arm. He reported that the shark released its bite…

  • Swim instructors prepare for summer of teaching

    Swim instructors prepare for summer of teaching

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    See KTTC School may be out for summer, but for many children and teens there are more lessons to learn in the pool. Participants in the Water Safety Instructor class at Rochester Recreation Center are completing a six month course in water safety and instruction. The student instructors are diving in to the fundamentals of…

  • Shreveport swimmer nearly drowns, sparks pool safety awareness

    Shreveport swimmer nearly drowns, sparks pool safety awareness

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    See KSLA After a Shreveport teenager almost drowned this past weekend, The Swim School in Shreveport-Bossier City offered some safety tips to make sure summer fun is also safe. Facility Manager Elaine Durbin said the first thing to remember is something simple but important. “You definitely need to enroll in swim lessons for sure,” she…

  • Lake Superior Swimming Risky as Beach House Opens

    Lake Superior Swimming Risky as Beach House Opens

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    See WDIO A beautiful day across the Northland Tuesday, but down by Lake Superior a cool breeze is fueled by even cooler water. It’s creating dangerous conditions for swimmers. “Hypothermia is a big risk,” Cheryl Vander Heyden, with the Duluth YMCA, said. “It’s always a risk in Lake Superior because it never gets very warm,…

  • Swimming pool crash suspect may have been drunk at the time

    Swimming pool crash suspect may have been drunk at the time

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    See WFSB A man police said was behind the wheel of a serious crash that ended in a swimming pool in Ledyard had a blood alcohol level almost four times the legal limit. Police said 25-year-old Marcus Harvin, of New Britain, was charged in the Memorial Day weekend crash where he was driving down Route…

  • Pools can be silent killer for kids

    Pools can be silent killer for kids

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    See WRDW YMCA Aquatics Director Chris Pinto says that it only takes 10 to 20 seconds for a child to get in trouble in the water. “When you’re not 100 percent vigilant on your swimmers, then they need to get out of the pool and wait for you to get back,” Pinto said. Chris says…

  • People Still Swimming Despite Sharks

    People Still Swimming Despite Sharks

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    See WKRG A rare double flag warning is up near Alabama Point at Orange Beach for a dangerously high volume of sharks in the area, but that hasn’t stopped people from swimming.

  • With last words, man tells wife ‘swim’

    With last words, man tells wife ‘swim’

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    See woodtv.com The wife of a man who died after going under the water in a northern Kent County lake said that in his final moments, he urged her to swim to safety. Charles Cooley and his wife Deborah often spent their weekends on the water in the Chain Lakes in Oakfield Township, southwest of…