The author and her daughter in Long Beach, California, in the summer of 2023. Photo Courtesy Of Shanetta McDonald The day I decided to learn how to swim was uneventful. I was at home nursing my ...

My mother signed me up for swim lessons at the age of 2. Just two short years later, I was competing at my first club swim meet with The Woodlands Swim Team (TWST). At 4 years old, I was the smallest ...

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 ...

Luckily, I felt safe with buoys to hang on to and my friend guiding me, and somehow, after just that one open-air practice session where I’d swim a few hundred metres then stop at the lake side, I ...

Vijaya Srivastava, who lives in the San Francisco Bay Area, took her first swimming lesson at age 68. She’s now a daily swimmer. Credit...Video by Aubrey Trinnaman for The New York Times Supported by ...

It’s another gray Pacific Northwest winter morning. The kind where the water and sky blend together into one, imbued with a raw, wet cold that seeps into your bones. I could be sitting inside drinking ...

It was nostalgia, not a desire to clear my head that first drew me to outdoor swimming in my 30s. I’d grown up close to water and spent my childhood at the beach, neck deep in the North Sea. The ...

Two swimmers, Conner Andrews and Sandie Pendleton, in the Milwaukee River. Not so many years ago, no one would dream of kayaking or canoeing the Milwaukee River. Now those activities are common. So, ...

MOUNT LAUREL, N.J. (CBS) -- According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, drowning is the number one cause of death for children between the ages of 1-4 but swim lessons can save lives.