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The Polar Bear Plunge event in Maryland is the largest polar bear plunge in the United States. It is held annually at Sandy Point State Park and raises funds for the Special Olympics. [ 42 ] Sponsored by the Maryland State Police , in 2007, Plungapalooza raised $2.2 million and had 7,400 participants. [ 43 ]
Jan. 1: Bradford Beach Polar Bear Plunge. A popular Milwaukee New Year's Day tradition, the Polar Bear Plunge at Bradford Beach, returns for another year on Monday, Jan. 1 at noon.The annual ...
The Richmond Polar Plunge kicks off the 2024 Plunge season. Its proceeds as well as those raised from the Prince William, Mosaic, New River and Virginia Beach Polar Plunges go toward the total ...
About 1,000 people celebrated the New Year plunging into the surf at Cayucos at the 44th annual Carlin Soulé Memorial Polar Bear Dip on Jan. 1, 2024, as roughly 2,000 more watched from the pier ...
The annual Fishkill Polar Plunge returns in February 2024. Here's how to sign up on your own or as a team.
The Coney Island Polar Bear Club is the oldest winter bathing organization in the United States, whose members regularly take polar bear plunges in the winters. [1] The club was founded by famed health advocate Bernarr McFadden in 1903. [2] The club began using the event to raise funds for Special Olympics starting in 2005, [3] and Camp ...
L Street Brownies by George Luks, 1922.. The club was officially organized in 1902, [1] [2] [3] and began accepting women members in 1915. [4] Although the club itself is older than the Coney Island Polar Bear Club, which was founded in 1903, its first documented New Year's Day swim did not take place until 1904, when a photographer took a picture of the event.
The Tybee Island Polar Plunge of 2012 was notable for making it into the Guinness Book of World Records for the “largest gathering of people wearing swim caps” when 2,049 of the 2,400 ...