Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The New York Times story reported on lifeguards tasked with watching over the athletes, even someone as adept in the pool as ...

After the Paris Olympics began in late July 2024, a meme went viral making fun of the notion that professional lifeguards are present at Olympic swimming events, calling it the most "useless" job in ...

Pools across the country have been closed for years. It's the end of an American pastime. I spent my summer afternoons as a tween at my local public pool in Milwaukee with a gaggle of neighborhood ...

New York City must hire more lifeguards and do more to teach kids to swim, local leaders said Tuesday, days after two teens drowned while trying to beat the heat in the waters off the Rockaways.

Being a real-life lifeguard involves more than anything seen on "Baywatch" or "Rescue." But how does one become a lifeguard, and are there differences between being a lifeguard at a neighborhood ...

Beach Rescue Director Daryl Paul said the department will be fully staffed with 17 lifeguards across city limits this weekend ...

City of Phoenix is hiring for summer aquatics jobs, with some positions open to applicants as young as 15.

Assateague Island National Seashore park officials are wrangling with a lack of lifeguards ahead of the Independence Day weekend, with swimmers at the Maryland and Virginia portions of the park ...

Janet Fash was always outspoken when it came to keeping beachgoers safe. She lays it all out in her feisty new memoir.

A 9-foot shark sighting shut down swimming at Point Lookout, with lifeguards red-flagging the beach and crews checking the ...