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Hundreds of people crowded Bradford Beach New Year's Day at noon and rang in 2024 by running into the chilly waters of Lake Michigan. Milwaukee's Polar Bear Plunge has been a popular New Year's ...
Samba Loca began a drum circle a few minutes before the noon plunge. About 1,000 people celebrated the New Year plunging into the surf at Cayucos at the 44th annual Carlin Soulé Memorial Polar ...
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 ]
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Seaside Heights Polar Bear Plunge to benefit Special Olympics takes place with thousands of participants. Approximately $2.4million was raised this year. Seaside Heights, NJ Saturday, February ...
The Provincetown Polar Bear Plunge on Jan. 1, 2023, drew an estimated 250 people, who rushed into the water with air temperatures around 49 degrees.