swimming

New Bedford's South End beaches have all reopened to swimmers. The beaches were closed over the weekend because of high bacteria levels following Friday's heavy rains. Water quality tests taken Monday have shown bacteria levels do not pose health hazards to swimmers...

Twenty one years ago less than two dozen people showed up to the first Swim Buzzards Bay event.

A new brochure being distributed on Cape Cod warning people about the possibility of sharks has some people wondering if it goes too far and might hurt tourism. The brochures were distributed by consortium of harbormasters and other officials...

A college student from southern New Jersey says she was stranded at sea for 16 hours while swimming off Honduras and is now safe.

Swimmers at Horseneck Beach in Westport report being stung by Portugese Man-o-Wars. A dozen people Thursday were hit by the long tentacles of the venomous organisms.