When Sadie Clayton attended her first adult swimming lesson at the age of 31, she immediately noticed things she and her fellow classmates had in common. Everyone wanted to hold onto the ledge.

Tokyo — A Chinese woman who was swept out to sea while swimming at a Japanese beach was rescued 37 hours later after drifting in a swimming ring more than 50 miles in the Pacific Ocean, officials said ...

Swimming wasn't exactly a childhood rite of passage for Natasha Foreman. "We were afraid of the water. My mom was afraid of the water. No one could swim," she recalled. At 30 years old, she dove right ...