My aunt Cleone, who often made the lake rules, felt it was necessary to wait not one, but two hours after eating before swimming. Someone she knew apparently had drowned between hour one and hour two.

CHOSHI, Japan (AP) — The best part of being on the ocean for weeks at a time, says Sonya Baumstein, is the stars. The worst? Being wet, all the time. Baumstein, an athlete from Orlando, Florida, ...