(WFSB) - As the weather heats up more people will be heading to the water to cool off. However, there have been several drownings in the state in the past month. Just last month two people in ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- The Great Lakes Surf Rescue Project has a difficult yet critical job, tracking drownings. Co-Founder and Executive Director Dave Benjamin said every year, nearly half of all drownings ...

GREENFIELD — Scott Elliott, Battalion Chief with the Greenfield Fire Territory (GFT), picked up the lengthy pole and dipped the far end of it into the Greenfield-Central High School swimming pool.

While it’s great to get out and enjoy Northern Michigan’s lakes and rivers, everyone should stay alert for possible drowning. The Great Lakes Surf Rescue Project not only teaches safe swimming but ...

WHEELING, W.Va. — With summer just around the corner, now is the time to recall swim and boating safety tips. Wheeling Fire Department officials said it can be important to learn how to swim, never to ...

As summer break approaches, Southwest Florida parents should remember water safety for their children, which could even include teaching them “self-rescue swimming” in a certified program. Self-rescue ...

CHESTERFIELD COUNTY, Va. (WRIC) — Tragedy has hit Central Virginia not once, but twice this week, with two young children dying after drowning in pools. Preventing drowning takes multiple layers of ...

May 30 (UPI) --A British mountain rescue team used a raft and "some aggressive swimming techniques" to save a lamb stranded on a precarious slope above deep water at Peak District National Park. The ...

Aboard a search-and-rescue boat in the Aegean, lifeguard Sarah Mardini scans the horizon through binoculars, searching for dinghies carrying refugees from Turkey. In August 2015, she and her younger ...

KEY LARGO, Fla. ― Fourteen-year-old B.B. is a bit of a showoff. A superstar athlete able to swim faster and jump higher than the other five bottlenose dolphins at Dolphin Life Key Largo (formerly ...

PASCO COUNTY, Fla. — With plenty of hot weather rolling across the Tampa Bay area, it seems like farm animals are also trying to cool themselves off with a quick swim. That was the case for one horse ...