After the Paris Olympics began in late July 2024, a meme went viral making fun of the notion that professional lifeguards are present at Olympic swimming events, calling it the most "useless" job in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The New York Times story reported on lifeguards tasked with watching over the athletes, even someone as adept in the pool as ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Youth athletics and tutoring nonprofit LEAP is now looking to hire 40 swim instructors to help 800 ...

CHESTERFIELD COUNTY, Va. — Summertime is almost here. That means fun in the pool, but it is also a time when young people are looking for summer jobs. The Collegiate School Aquatics Center in ...

SPARTANBURG COUNTY, S.C. (WSPA) – According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, there are more than 4,000 accidental drownings annually in the United States. According to the ...

CHESTERFIELD COUNTY, Va. (WRIC) — The ongoing lifeguard shortage across the country might have forced your community pool to shorten its hours, or close completely. To keep swimming pools open, a ...

This article was originally published on July 16, 2025. When Kevin Tarpley was a young lifeguard in the ‘70s, the city of Youngstown had almost a dozen public swimming pools. “You had a pool on every ...

New York City must hire more lifeguards and do more to teach kids to swim, local leaders said Tuesday, days after two teens drowned while trying to beat the heat in the waters off the Rockaways.

The Youngstown Lifeguard Academy teaches teens from the city how to swim and then trains them to be lifeguards, keeping the city's last remaining public swimming pool staffed and safe. When Kevin ...