Swimming

France reports 40 drowning deaths during severe heatwave

A deadly heatwave in France has led to around 40 drowning deaths as people seek relief in unsafe swimming spots, officials said on Tuesday.

Vacationers enjoy swimming at the beach of Le Bourget lake in Le Bourget-du-Lac, central eastern France, on August 8, 2025.
A lifeguard and a NSW Police boat patrol Coogee Beach following a shark attack in Sydney, Australia, June 13, 2026.

Sydney reopens Coogee Beach under heavy patrols after woman critically injured in shark attack

Fallen soldier and former swimmer Eden Nimri

Olympic Committee of Israel honors fallen swimmer Eden Nimri

Open pool horizontal.

Israeli community builds world's only mechanical-divide swimming pool


This week in Jerusalem: No more stink

A weekly round-up of city affairs.

 A SCENE FROM the 2018 strike by city workers that left garbage piles at the Mahaneh Yehuda market.

Parents claim their children's hair is falling out because of a pool

Kfar Maccabiah and the Health Ministry responded that the water test was done as required and the results were not unusual.

 People walk through strong gusts of wind as storm Sabine is expected to hit the region in Cologne, Germany

Check out this animal taking a swim in the floods from Hurricane Ian!

A recent TikTok video went viral when an enterprising racoon swam directly up to a newscaster, who was utterly delighted. 

 Raccoon reaching for persimmons.

This Holocaust survivor and Brazilian swimming champion is still competing at 98

In addition to her achievements in the pool, all earned since she started swimming competitively at age 69, Tausz Ronai's story of Holocaust perseverance has added to her local legend.

A drone view of the Christ The Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Aug. 15, 2020.

Equalizing opportunities in the pool

This is the largest swimming project in the Bedouin society in the Negev by The Equalizer non-profit, which operates swimming lessons for children from the Israeli social periphery.

 SWIMMING SHOULD be a year-round sport and activity for children of all ages.

Jewish, Muslim women go viral on TikTok for comparing modest swimwear rules

Both the Jewish woman and Muslim woman are shown in the TikTok video to cover their hair and wear long sleeves at the beach.

 It's completely unrealistic to prevent our youth from using TikTok.

Swimming pool sinkhole: Safety is not a luxury - editorial

Being responsible is doing your best to ensure disasters don’t happen. Did that happen in Meron, Nahal Tzafit or at the pool in Karmei Yosef?

 Sinkhole under a pool in Karmei Yosef, July 21, 2022.

What’s the right thing to do when someone is drowning next to you?

Sixteen people have died in Israel since the start of this swimming season. What’s the first important thing to do when seeing someone drowning?

Swimming pool (Illustrative)

Sri Lanka PM offers resignation after protesters storm, set fire to president's house

Sri Lankan President to step down from the presidency on July 13 * Israel issues travel warning to Sri Lanka

 Demonstrators protest inside the President's House, after President Gotabaya Rajapaksa fled, in Colombo

How a woman with Down's syndrome swims across the Kinneret - opinion

Ayelet Wilk: “I love kids and I love swimming. I make sure that I’m the first in the water. My teacher holds my hand and together we swim the whole way across.”

 AYELET ON the Kinneret.