The five-member Honolulu Ocean Safety Commission unanimously selected Kurt Lager as the first commission-appointed chief of Ocean Safety in the department’s short history. Lager, a 20-year lifeguard ...

HONOLULU (Island News) – A Kauai lifeguard was recently discharged from the hospital after recovering from a shark bite incident. Chance Swanson was discharged on Monday from The Queen’s Medical ...

LA JOLLA, Calif. (FOX 5/KUSI) — La Jolla Backwash, shore pound and a spear fisherman too exhausted to continue. The only hope: Two San Diego Lifeguards risking their lives and rolling the dice against ...

"My game plan was just to stay awake and try and make it visible to someone that I needed help," Chance Swanson recalled of the shark attack on Nov. 5 Desiree Anello is a Writer/Reporter at PEOPLE.

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Wednesday, Nov. 5, started out as a productive day for 33-year-old Chance Swanson. “I got my safety checks for my car and trailer, and I painted my bathroom,” he said from ...

KALAMAZOO, Mich. (WOOD) — A lifeguard program implementation framework is heading to South Haven city leaders with a potential roadmap. The lakeshore community hasn’t had lifeguards on duty for the ...

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KAUAI, Hawaii (Island News) – Loved ones of a local lifeguard who recently got injured in a shark attack at Hanalei Bay, created a GoFundMe page to help with his recovery journey. Chance Swanson was ...

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 ...

A 12-year-old junior lifeguard used his training and saved several people who were stranded after their boat capsized. The 12-year-old was on his family’s boat in Oceanside Harbor when a 25-foot ...

OCEANSIDE, Calif. (FOX 5/KUSI) — Saturday in heavy surf, 12-year-old Nathan Usher’s fishing trip turned into a rescue mission. “We heard on the radio there was a capsized boat in the harbor mouth,” ...

At Scarborough Beach State Park, Beacon, Buoy, and Bell are on paw patrol. It was 10 a.m. on a slow, hot August morning at Scarborough Beach State Park, which means one thing for the lifeguards at the ...