Swimming skills a lifesaving lesson
Photo credit: Susan Stava | Swimming pool at Rockland Lake State park. (July 6,2012)
Guide to pool safety 
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Drownings, near-drownings and water incidents
Tyreef Benston, 26, drowned in a pond in Noyack. He and his girlfriend were in what they thought was shallow water. Neither one of them could swim.
Byron McArthur in East Islip, 21 months old, tumbled off a ladder into an above-ground pool. His mother found him at the bottom, and hard as she tried, she could not revive the toddler.
David Aureliano, 12, Harlie Treanor, 11, and Victoria...
