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 ...

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, ...

WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) - According to a survey from the American Red Cross, 54% of adults in the United States do not know how to swim or lack some of the basic swimming skills. Student-athlete Jack ...

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 ...

WORCESTER — Dr. Cathy “CJ” Jones Dickson says swimming is the only sport that saves lives. She works as an emergency room doctor in Leominster and has seen firsthand the injuries from water-based ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) --Many adults can't swim well enough to save themselves. WDRB's Keith Kaiser learns how Central Adult Learn-to-Swim, Inc. (ALTS) is trying to change all that. The ALTS ...

(WSPA) – The summer season means many of you will be spending time at pools, lakes or the beach. Not everyone who enjoys the water knows how to swim. Kelly Colley, the Aquatics Director for the YMCA ...

Water activities are a source of enjoyment for people of all ages, but they also come with inherent risks. Drowning remains a leading cause of unintentional injury-related deaths among children in the ...

Kids Group Swim Lessons are available exclusively to children ages four and up of William & Mary Faculty and Staff. Our trained swim instructors will help your child develop lifesaving swimming skills ...

At a swim meet just outside St. Louis, heads turned when a team of young swimmers walked through the rec center with their parents in tow. A supportive mom kept her eye on the clock while the Makos ...

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 ...