lifeguard

A quiet Sunday at the YMCA turned into an adventure.

Lifeguards are needed in Connecticut state parks, according to Mason Trumble, the deputy commissioner for the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection. DEEP officials are looking to fill approximately 40 open lifeguard positions across the state, with the biggest need focused in New Fairfield, Torrington and Shelton. So far, approximately 60 lifeguards have been hired and are being trained, but…

Lifeguarding positions are open at eight swimming areas across the state.

A man has pleaded guilty to the broad-daylight abduction and rape of a lifeguard at a pool in Alexandria, Virginia.

This weekend is expected to be perfect for the beach, but, if you’re headed to some beaches you may not see any lifeguards on duty.

Like many kids in Florida, Violet Jalil loves the ocean. But for the past two years, her mom hasn’t let her 5-year-old daughter swim in the ocean.

In recent years, great white shark sightings have become all the more common on Cape Cod. Already this year, more than 150 of the sharks have been spotted off of Massachusetts. Most of the sightings are on the outer Cape, from Chatham to Provincetown. But there have also been many sightings in Cape Cod Bay, where research scientists have been...

Over the past week, there were 17 shark sightings off Cape Cod, including seven over the weekend alone. According to the Atlantic White Shark Conservancy’s Sharktivity app, great white sharks were spotted in Cape Cod Bay and off Truro, Eastham, Orleans, Chatham and Monomoy Island.

It was another busy weekend for shark sightings, with 15 great whites spotted off the coast of Massachusetts on Saturday and Sunday combined. That’s the same number of sharks that were spotted the weekend before. According to the Atlantic White Shark Conservancy’s Sharktivity app, seven great white sharks were spotted off Provincetown, one off Truro, two of Wellfleet, one off...

A 4-year-old girl who was run over by a lifeguard truck at a Coronado beach Monday was released from Rady Children’s Hospital Tuesday afternoon.

A 4-year-old girl who was run over by a lifeguard truck at a Coronado beach Monday was released from Rady Children’s Hospital Tuesday afternoon.

As temperatures begin to sizzle and anticipation for July 4th builds, community pools around the state are opening up and hitting capacity, such as Colt Park in Hartford, which had 800 people on Thursday at its peak.

A shortage of lifeguards in Connecticut has led at least one popular swimming area to reduce its hours of operation.

Lots of Connecticut residents are soaking up the sun this Memorial Day Weekend.

Lifeguarding is a glamorous summer job but qualified candidates are in short supply here in Connecticut.

A lifeguard at a beach in New Jersey where three people died when the sand collapsed under their feet as they walked along the shoreline said a year after the most recent death that “we know it’s going to happen again.”North Wildwood lifeguard Lt. David Lindsay made the admission in a secretly recorded conversation played in court Friday as a...

Farmington River Tubing provides a great way to cool off for the whole family.

Crews resumed their search Monday for a 12-year-old Canadian girl who fell off a boat in San Diego’s San Vicente Reservoir Saturday.

A bridegroom has been credited with saving a struggling swimmer just moments after his beach wedding on the Gulf Coast last week. Zac and Cindy Edwards had just gotten married at Orange Beach, Alabama, and were taking wedding photos when a woman came up and said someone was struggling in the surf, WALA-TV reported. Coast Guard Petty Officer 2nd Class...

For the second straight day, a Cape Cod beach has been temporarily closed to swimming due to a shark sighting.