Category: Winter Swimming

Seasoned Winter Swimmer Colin Hill provides some top tips on outdoor cold water swimming.

By the standards of the Coney Island Polar Bear Club, it was practically a day at the beach for participants in the 115th annual New Year’s Day dip in the ocean off New York City.

The waters in Vancouver’s English Bay can be as cold as 3 C on Jan. 1, but that hasn’t stopped thousands of people from getting into the water to mark the new year. On Tuesday, the Vancouver Park Board will host the 99th edition of its Polar Bear Swim. The first was held in 1920, when around…

An Irkutsk team of ice swimmers marked the start of 2019 by jogging and enjoying a freezing cold dip in Lake Baikal, Tuesday.

Swimmers in Italy and the Netherlands have braved a New Year’s Day dip to welcome in 2019. . Report by Sarah Harper.

Thousands of people throw themselves into the icy waters of the North Sea in Schevingen, a seaside district of The Hague, the Netherlands, singing and dancing to celebrate the New Year, as tradition has it for several decades.

A group of intrepid swimmers in Santa’s hats on Tuesday (25 DEC. 2018) braved freezing temperatures as they took a dip in Berlin’s Oranke lake to welcome Christmas day. Water temperatures of 4 degrees Celcius (39.2 Fahrenheit) did not stop the Berlin Sealions Club from their annual polar plunge.

Get a glimpse into the world of winter swimming in the Tallinn harbour with UK journalist Jon Cardwell. Check out his full journey: https://estonianway.com/joncardwell

Hundreds of revellers take part in the traditional “Bain des Givres” swim in the cold North Sea as part of New Year’s Day celebrations at Malo-Les-Bains beach in Dunkirk, northern France.