Deputies and a good Samaritan helped rescue a boater who fell overboard Tuesday afternoon and spent nearly an hour in cold ...

Over the weekend, authorities recovered the body of a missing kayaker in South Carolina’s Lake Marion without his PFD on.

None of the crew who fled a capsized trawler off the coast of Norway which resulted in the death of a fisherman was wearing life jackets, an investigation has found. Ronald Mackinnon, from Peterhead, ...

"Authorities should instruct people on how to use the life jackets in case of an emergency," some tourists suggested.

A former section chief of Minami-Sanriku town who lost his colleagues in the twin tragedies thought that a life jacket equipped with a GPS function could help quickly locate people swept offshore ...