Category: Open Water
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New Year’s polar bear plunge in Northport
Dozens took the polar bear plunge at Steers Beach in Northport in support of the Northport Food Pantry. The annual New Year’s Day fundraiser is sponsored by Boy Scout Troop 410 and the Northport Fire Department Smoke Eaters.
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Polar Bear Plunge raises funds in Connellsville
The Connellsville Polar Bears celebrated their 10th year of taking a dip in the frigid Youghiogheny River. The annual event on New Year’s Day raises money for the Connellsville Area Community Ministries food bank.
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CKPG segment on Annual Polar Bear Swim
“Crazy…brave….or both? You’d have to at least one of those things to willingly dunk in a frigid lake in the middle of Northern BC winter. But yesterday, dozens of people did to ring in the new year with the annual polar bear swim.”
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Jacksonport Polar Plungers swim in record low temperatures
See Fox11 The Polar Plunge in Jacksonport set a record New Year’s Day 2014. “It’s probably the coldest and thus the most rewarding when we’re finished,†said Jacksonport Polar Bear Club founder J.R. Jarosh. Not for the number of swimmers, but for the coldest temperature for the swim in the club’s 28-year history.
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Hundreds of swimmers brave the cold in Dunkirk
Between 400 and 500 people began the new year in the northern French city of Dunkirk by braving the cold and jumping into the sea.
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Fox 13 reports on New Years Day Swim in the Great Salt Lake
Wasatch Front Polar Bear Club swims in the Great Salt Lake on New Years Day 2014.
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Polar Bear Swims 2014
Yeah, let’s start collecting again, like after Christmas Achill New Year’s Day Swim 2014 Bowen Island Polar Bear Swim 2014 Broadstair’s New Year’s Day Swim 2014 Channahon Polar Plunge 2014 Charlestown Polar Plunge 2014 Coeur d’Alene Polar Bear Plunge 2014 (aerial view) Coney Island Polar Bear Swim 2014 Coney Island Polar Bear Swim 2014 (2)…
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Thousands Attend Coney Island Polar Bear Swim
Polar Bear Club starts 2014 with icy swim in Coney Island Brooklyn. http://youtu.be/lUQqzMqO4s8
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Lake Michigan ice makes for tricky New Year’s swim
Milwaukee’s Polar Bear club held it’s annual New Year’s Day swim in Lake Michigan, but shifting winds brought a lot of lake ice to the shores.. making for some tricky footing.