Austinities and some local officials took part in a tradition going back decades: the Polar Plunge at Barton Springs Pool.

Most of the überwealthy don't bother to drain their pools when they go north for the summer, which means their onyx and ultramarine oases are ours for the backstroking. Like the famous character in ...

Below, Jon has proposed doing a two-man "suicide pool" with me. Anyone who wants to join please have your men's and women's first-round entries in the comments section below by Sunday evening.

A man has suffered head injuries after falling while jumping into the pool from a cliff at a beach in Sydney's eastern suburbs.

A man is in a serious but stable condition after suffering a head injury when he slipped while trying to jump off a cliff into a pool at a Christmas Day beach party.

Coronation Street actor Carol Royle says her "heart is aching" following her husband's death, caused by a sudden brain haemorrhage after jumping into a freezing swimming pool. The actress ...

She described him as “a perfectly fit man” but said he had a sudden brain haemorrhage after jumping into a pool of freezing water. “Perfectly fit man but jumped into a freezing pool which he ...