Category: Winter Swimming
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Ladies challenge winter swimming? Not a big deal in Russia
In Russia’s central city of Nizhny Novgorod, a group of ladies celebrated the International Women’s day with a dive into the freezing water.
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Vince Vaughn, Lady Gaga swim in icy cold water for Polar Plunge event
Celebrities, including Vince Vaughn, Lady Gaga, her fiancé and actor Taylor Kinney, participated in Chicago’s Polar Plunge on Sunday by swimming alongside locals in frigid Lake Michigan. An estimated 4,500 people took the icy plunge — despite the 32 degree Fahrenheit water temperature — to support the Special Olympics, according to the Chicago Tribune. Via Mashable
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‘I have never felt pain like this before’: Lewis Pugh breaks record with Antarctic dip wearing only speedos
Lewis Pugh, who is the United Nation’s Environment Programme’s (UNEP) Patron of the Oceans, is undertaking a series of swims in the Antarctic Ocean to influence world leaders to make the Ross Sea – which is under serious threat from commercial fishing and global warming – a Marine Protected Area. And Pugh has spoken of…
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Lewis Pugh to tackle world’s most dangerous swim in Antarctic – wearing only speedos!
British endurance swimmer Lewis Pugh is embarking on the “most dangerous swims ever undertaken in the world” to call for a vast protected area in Antarctic waters. The swimmer is taking to the waters of Antarctica’s Southern Ocean, braving freezing temperatures, leopard seals and killer whales in nothing more than his Speedo swimwear to raise…
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Blizzard Doesn’t Keep Polar Bears From Brooklyn Swim
The Polar Bear Club took an after blizzard swim at Coney Island Beach.
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LOST Polar Bear Dip 2015
We had 35 dippers show up this year (up from about 25 last year, it keeps growing!)… and about the same number of supporters as dippers. Of course, by supporters I mean friends and relatives that were too sane to dip… but weren’t going to miss a chance for a good laugh! See L.O.S.T Swimming…
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Why a Quick Cold Water Swim Is Good for You
People have been taking dips in ice cold water for generations, both for pleasure and for generations-touted health benefits. It may seem crazy to plunge into freezing water for any length of time, but this video from the folks at DNews runs down some of the benefits—and sets the record straight on the dangers. See…
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World Winter Swimming Championships: cold, tough – but what a buzz
“Take off your clothes,†a foreign voice said over the loudspeaker – slowly, rhythmically, emphasising each syllable. “Get into the water.†It was not the kind of voice you disobey. So although I was on the Arctic circle, surrounded by ice and snow on all sides, I got in. Technically, the 25-metre pool was in…