The rollout of the technology comes after seven people drowned at the city’s public beaches last summer, the most since 2019.

NYC launches a drone initiative to aid swimmers at beaches by dropping life rafts and providing support alongside lifeguards.

City officials unveiled a summer safety plan aimed at keeping locals safe “via land, air, and sea”, with city beaches ...

Rhododendrites via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 4.0 For the first time, the New York City police department began using drones equipped with inflatable rafts ... a powerful life-saving tool ...

Lifeguards claim the girl would have drowned if Andrew Smith did not use his drone to save her, according to reports.

"It just dropped the life raft and so we just held on to that and just swam into shore," Vidler said. It was the first drone rescue since the New South Wales state government last month invested $345 ...

The drones, which come equipped with inflatable life rafts that can be dropped on distressed swimmers, have yet to conduct any rescues. They spotted their first shark on Thursday, resulting in a ...

Once she was reported missing, police used a thermal-imaging drone to find her. The search ended in just hours, likely saving her life ... had been knocked off his raft in high currents, Cole ...