KAUAI, Hawaii (Island News) -- Chance Swanson recounts the overwhelming fear the moment he encountered a shark while surfing at Hanalei Bay. "Next thing you know, something's just chomping down on my ...

OCEANSIDE, Calif. (KABC) -- A 12-year-old junior lifeguard in Southern California is being hailed a hero after he helped save five people from a capsized boat. The boy was on his family's fishing boat ...

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A carved-out cow bone found in Egypt is actually an ancient whistle, once used by an Egyptian “police officer.” This officer didn’t use the whistle to direct traffic, though. He was guarding a royal ...

SEVIERVILLE, Tenn. — The Sevierville Police Department said it is investigating after a lifeguard died at a resort Thursday night. According to SPD Public Information Officer Bob Stahlke, officers ...

New Jersey resident Edward Kiziukiewicz secured the world record for oldest open water lifeguard Brian Anthony Hernandez, who has nearly 20 years of journalism experience, joined PEOPLE as a ...

Ed Kiziukiewicz, an 82-year-old Bay Head Beach lifeguard, has been saving lives at the Jersey Shore for decades. In fact, he’s the oldest male open water lifeguard in the world, according to Guinness ...

Emma Cronin, 15, of Smithtown, wants to be an ocean lifeguard at Robert Moses State Park’s beaches one day. Cronin’s older sister is 19 and a lifeguard at Robert Moses. "I started [training to be a ...

Whistle pet trackers are headed to the Internet of Things (IoT) graveyard. After releasing its first product in 2013, the Seattle-based Whistle has just been acquired by a competitor that has decided ...

Whistle, a subsidiary of Mars that makes pet trackers, has announced that it's being acquired by Tractive. As part of the acquisition, Whistle trackers will stop working, but Tractive is offering to ...

You can never be too safe in the water, even when "the water" is a hot tub. When Jim Carrey hosted Saturday Night Live for his first time on May 18, 1996, he played a man who takes his job very ...

The New Jersey lifeguard impaled by a beach umbrella while working a summer job on the sand is speaking out about the ordeal that almost ended her life. Alex Kaus, 18, was working as a lifeguard on ...