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An American man has died while proposing to his girlfriend underwater during a vacation in Tanzania, NBC News reported. Steven Weber drowned while asking Kenesha Antoine to marry him at an island resort off the east coast of Africa Thursday. Antoine shared the news of Weber’s death on her Facebook page, saying that he “never emerged from those depths.”...Read...

A boy was found dead in a pool at Delaware County’s Folcroft Swim Club early Wednesday morning. He and his friends snuck into the club after hours, police said.

A boy drowned after he and three friends apparently snuck into a swim club in Delaware County, police said.

A boy was found dead in a pool at Delaware County’s Folcroft Swim Club early Wednesday morning. He and his friends snuck into the club after hours, police said.

Prosecutors say a Texas man has been sentenced to life in prison without parole in the drowning death of his girlfriend’s 3-year-old nephew.

The first great white shark to ever ping in the Long Island Sound had an inauspicious introduction to fame Monday, drawing so much traffic to a research group’s website that it stopped working — and still was having trouble the next day.

Researchers are tracking a great white shark in the Long Island Sound for the first time ever, according to the group OCEARCH.

Two Missouri officers saved the life of a 6-month-old girl whose father walked into their police station and said he had just drowned his daughter, authorities say. Greenwood police Chief Greg Hallgrimson and Cpl. Tom Calhoun rushed to a pond where the man said he had drowned his daughter Monday and pulled her out, performed CPR and warmed her up...

Authorities have arrested a New Jersey man who is accused of leaving a young pit bull mix to drown in a cage at water’s edge in a rising tide.

A bachelor party contest to see who could stay underwater the longest ended in death when police say one competitor didn’t resurface.

Lana Wood, the sister of actress Natalie Wood whose drowning death in 1981 has fueled speculation for decades, has put out a plea for information about the case in a new podcast.

Signs of drowning can often be loud and attention-grabbing, but that’s not the case with shallow water blackouts, also known as the silent killer.

The accidental drowning of Olympic skier Bode Miller’s daughter is an example of what happens every day: CDC data shows that drowning is leading cause of unintentional death among children.

Authorities say a Pennsylvania teen has died in an accident while getting ready for school. The Butler Police Department says 17-year-old Brianne Rapp died Friday after falling in the bathroom of her family’s home around 6:45 a.m.

A former professional boxer has met and thanked the man who rescued him after he nearly drowned in a rip current at the New Jersey shore.

State police say a Pennsylvania man has died after the lawn mower he was operating slid into a pond.

Blake Munoz is used to taking a plunge in the pool for his Oceanside Swim Team. But little did he know, the strong swimming skills he developed would be used Monday to save a drowning schoolmate’s life.

Authorities in western Pennsylvania say a 1-year-old boy died after apparently falling into a pond in the yard of a home.

A 34-year-old man nearly drowned in a Jersey Shore motel pool Saturday.