In an airy indoor pool with fish cutouts on the walls, a group of small children bobbed, floated and tentatively flutter-kicked.It was what it looked like, a starter swimming class. But here, ...

It's every parent's worst nightmare. It only takes seconds for a child to drown, often so silently no one notices before it's too late. Drowning is one of the leading causes of death in children, ...

As drowning risks have come into focus, advocates are trying to make swimming lessons more accessible. The Associated Press is an independent, not-for-profit news cooperative headquartered in New York ...

Every year, about 900 children die from accidental drowning in the United States. This is largely in part due to lack of access to swimming lessons, living far from bodies of water and lack of ...

A partnership between Community Offshore Wind and YMCA will provide free swimming lessons to thousands of Brooklyn K-3 children, an experience that can onboard them in adulthood to careers as turbine ...