WATER safety campaigns have been tailored around teaching children to swim — but more than two adults drown in Australian waterways for every child. Scared or stigmatised adults across the state, ...

Scared or stigmatised adults across the state, ­mostly immigrants, many of whom have never learnt to swim, are being urged to take the plunge and learn how. Last financial year, 113 people aged 25 or ...

WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) - Adults not knowing how to swim is more common than most people think. A swim coach from the YMCA is telling people it’s never too late to learn. According to the Centers for ...

It's a scorching hot Melbourne summer's day when the question I'm dreading arises. "Should we go to the beach?" The thing is, ...

TAUNTON- City resident Francisco Alves, 34, said he joined a free adult swimming class at the Old Colony YMCA in Taunton "to learn how to swim and float." "I have no idea how to swim at all," he said ...

For most Australians, learning to swim is just a part of growing up. But for people born overseas, where swimming is not part of everyday life, it can be daunting to take to the water for the first ...

We’re wrapping up Swim Week on NBC 5 Today, NBC 5’s Alanna Quillen teams with the local YMCA to help prevent childhood drowning deaths this summer. But it's not just kids. According to the Red Cross, ...

From everyday questions to more complex problems, we’re asking the experts to lend us a hand. Throughout the series "Professional Help," we’ll hear some direct advice, for us not-so-direct Minnesotans ...

Instructor Kursten Carlson assists Yeping Tran of Sacramento in performing a back float during a lesson at the YMCA in Sacramento. Autumn Payne apayne@sacbee.com Move over kids, adults are in the pool ...

Swimming is a natural part of Australian life. Girt by sea, we are a nation of beachgoers, and a love of the water is encoded in our national DNA. Learning to swim is, therefore, something that it is ...

Adapted from the novel by Kate Marchant, Float (now in theatres and digital), starring Andrea Bang and Robbie Amell, finds its romance in the intimacy and vulnerability of searching for a sense of ...

Torniqua Sashington tucked her hair under a bubblegum pink swim cap Monday night and carefully slipped into the shallow end of an indoor pool for her first swimming lesson at a YMCA in Woodlawn. A ...