All news on the topic: Swimming

A lifeguard has issued urgent advice for anyone heading to the seaside over the bank holiday weekend, pointing out the best ways to stay safe in the water

Splash World in Southport, Merseyside has been a favourite destination for families, friends, and water enthusiasts for many years, and is now poised to reopen on Saturday

West Wittering in Sussex, Scarborough North Bay in Yorkshire and Westward Ho! in Devon are among the UK's Blue Flag beaches, a standard of cleanliness that should make them perfect for swimming

Residents in Margate, Kent, adore Palm Bay beach but, as it is popular with jet skiers, beachgoers are not supposed to swim in the water, a rule which has split opinion

Young footballer Nicolae Topa, 17, drowned in a lake at Fairlop Waters Country Park, in Hainault, east London, weeks after being attacked by four men armed with crowbars

Archie Blake had his leg torn into by a shark while snorkelling with his family on a "trip of a lifetime" in Australia that they had been waiting to take for four years

Nearly half of those in the LGBTQ+ community feel that the sports world is less accepting of them than society as a whole

Nike used trans influencer Dylan Mulvaney - who identifies as a woman but is yet to have surgery - to show off the sports brand's new female range, but Olympian Sharron Davies was left unimpressed

The worst incident was on Blackpool Sands in Devon, where sewage was discharged for 1,014 hours last year during 63 separate sewage dumps onto the beach

Parents have been urged to avoid buying blue swimming costumes for their children after a safety expert shared an eye-opening demonstration of why it might be a mistake

Ocean swimmer Nada Pantle was issued a warning for breaching the 'no nudity' clause in a surf club's child safe policy while getting dressed in the changing room

Three-time Olympic champion swimmer Adam Peaty has announced he is stepping away from the sport due to burnout, ahead of next year's Paris Olympics

An investigation is continuing after sisters Zi'Ariel Robinson Oliver, nine, A'Miyah Hughes, eight, and five-year-old Te'Mari Robinson Oliver were found dead in a pond in Texas last year

Trans athlete Tiffany Thomas, 46, who had only taken up cycling in 2018, came first place at the Randall's Island Crit cycling race after beating her competitors to the top spot

A civil engineer and the manager of a waterpark have been charged with manslaughter after an eight-year-old boy died when he fell almost 50ft down a waterslide that was being dismantled in Caldas Novas, Brazil

The blue-ringed octopus may look tiny but its venom packs a punch, with tetrodotoxin being strong enough to kill 20 humans by paralysing the body and stopping the victim from being able to breathe

Twin brothers Josue and Jefferson Perez, from Texas, US, were playing in the sea near the Pleasure Pier in Galveston when they suddenly went missing on Sunday afternoon

Ex-US swimming champion Jamie Cail, 42, was found unconscious on the floor by her boyfriend at their home in St John, Virgin Islands after he returned home from a bar just after midnight

Former US swimming star Jamie Cail, 42, was found by her boyfriend at their home in St John, Virgin Islands on February 21 at around midnight after he returned home from a bar

Bristol mayor Marvin Rees has announced a trial in the spring where swimmers will be able to swim in the harbour safe from passing traffic on the water, at the cost of £7 a go

Faecal matter has been detected at St Mary's Bay on Romney Marsh in Kent by the Environment Agency meaning people are advised not to swim there throughout 2023

The fin was spotted by a woman in Gunwalloe near Porthleven on the south Cornish coast sparking warnings to swimmers and surfers in the area

Nicola Bulley 45, has been missing since January 27 and was last seen walking her brown spaniel Willow near the River Wyre in St Michaels on the Wyre, Lancashire

Tao Hoogland was diving with his friend Joseph at Shark Bay, Western Australia, on Friday when suddenly they were just inches away from a hungry and aggressive shark

One dog trainer said the erratic behaviour exhibited by Nicola Bulley's spaniel was likely linked to distress rather than anything to do with the breed specifically