I can’t remember a time when I wasn’t in the water – in fact, all of my favorite memories have happened there. At just 10 months old, I had my first swim lesson, and I can’t recall a time when ...

With drowning deaths on the rise nationwide, local officials and organizations are working to prevent drownings and other water-related accidents in their communities by promoting water safety and ...

Providing very young children with swimming lessons appears to have a protective effect against drowning and does not increase children's risk of drowning, researchers report. Providing very young ...

More than 4,500 people in the U.S. lost their lives in drowning accidents in 2022, the most recent year for which data are available, and more than 70 percent of them were adults. There have been ...

Swimming lessons have helped reduce child drowning deaths by an average of 5-7% a year over the last 10 years, the head of an international non-profit has said. Doan Thu Huyen, country director of ...