To try and persuade people that by attending to certain rules they may get into deep water without the risk of drowning is to create a false confidence which will rather increase than diminish the ...

Drowning is the top cause of death in young kids. As pools and beaches reopen for the summer, emergency physician Dr. Leana Wen discusses important water-safety tips.

What do people get wrong about dry drowning, rip currents and more? We asked water safety experts.

Children ages 1 through 4 are most susceptible to drowning in at-home swimming pools. Between ages 5 and 14, natural water and swimming pools have the highest drowning risk.

As pool and beach season gets underway safety experts remind water lovers not to have a false sense of security because a lifeguard is on duty or because they know how to swim. The World Congress o… ...

Almost half of Americans are afraid of the deep end of a pool. Over a third are unable to swim, and almost 4000 a year die of drowning. How can we help? We must address the fear first.

In some tragic cases, a child accustomed to using floaties will accidentally fall into a body of water and automatically assume their usual drowning position, without the know-how to swim their ...

Eric Shendelman, president of Shendy's Swim School in Toronto, is working with the Lifesaving Society and Canadian Drowning Prevention Coalition to provide water safety education to at-risk youth.

That makes drowning a safety issue that’s crucial to review each and every summer, when beach and pool and swimming season comes around, though water safety activists would point out that most ...