Polar bear plunge

A polar bear plunge is an event held during the winter where participants enter a body of water despite the low temperature.

[1][2][3][4] Vancouver, British Columbia's annual Polar Bear Swim Club has been active since 1920 and typically has 1,000 to 2,000 registered participants, with a record 2,128 plunging into English Bay in 2000.

[19] Every New Year's Day around 60,000 people dive collectively into the icy cold sea water at Scheveningen, a Dutch beach resort town, since 1960.

[20][21] Polar plunges (the local name) are held at various beaches in New Zealand, usually on the weekend closest to the shortest day in late June.

[31] Since the event's inauguration in 1983, thousands of people have taken part in the annual New Year's Day Dip on the Isle of Man, a British Crown Dependency.

Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth College also organizes an annual "Polar Plunge for Health Equity" into Occom Pond.

[42] Every Super Bowl Sunday, Long Beach, New York, hosts one of the largest plunge events in the United States.

[46][47] A polar plunge is also held every midsummer in Antarctica as a rite of passage for scientists and visitors to New Zealand's Scott Base.