swimming

Calling all dogs!  Your pooch is invited to an end of the year summer dip in the YMCA Dartmouth Pool!  After hours and days of being used to keep campers cool in the summer months, the YMCA let's dogs have the final splash on Saturday, September 5th before closing the outdoor pool down for the season.

All New Bedford beaches have reopened to swimming on Friday.

WELLFLEET, Mass. (AP) _ Cape Cod officials are reminding visitors how to stay safe as great white sharks begin their annual return to the tourist destination. The Cape Cod National Seashore said in an advisory this week that visitors should swim close to shore, where their feet can touch bottom...

The New Bedford Health Department has announced that all of the city's beaches have reopened for swimming on Friday.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently revealed why some swimmers get red eyes after a few laps in the pool and it's not what you think it is.

Authorities say a 17-year-old boy swimming in an Attleboro apartment complex's Olympic-size indoor pool while wearing sweatpants has drowned in the deep end.

Like a scene from the movie ``Jaws,'' swimmers were ordered out of the water at the Duxbury town beach when a large shark was spotted near the shoreline. Officials said the shark, which was tracked by a state police helicopter, was estimated to be about 15 feet in length...

The National Weather Service is warning swimmers about possible riptide currents in Massachusetts and Rhode Island as Tropical Storm Bertha passes within a few hundred miles of southern New England.

We brought our kids to the YMCA when they were infants to introduce them to swimming! I can still hear my mother scolding me that they were too young to be taught.

Every year, swimmers drown in treacherous rip currents, because they don't know how to escape them. The real danger with rip currents is not that you are getting pulled away from the shore, but how you react!