Category: Winter Swimming

The first underground swimming relay was held in Poland at the Historic Silver Mine in Tarnowskie Gory. It’s on the UNESCO World Heritage List. The brave participants seem to love it! “People who swim open water know what it means,” said one female swimmer. “This water is soft, you can feel it with the whole…

Dozens of people in Gaza love to swim in winter especially on the coldest days when the temperature drops below zero Celsius. Winter swimming enthusiasts believe that it provides them with strong immunity since it burns calories and fat, protects them from several diseases, including winter influenza and others and it also builds the body…

For 30 years, on the first day of the new year, members of the Fair Oaks Dolphins swim team have honored a tradition: jumping in Lake Natoma at dawn. While it’s not a traditional polar bear plunge, meaning subfreezing water- it may as well be, for the water they’re about to enter was indeed snow recently. And…

The annual New Year’s day plunge is led by one of America’s oldest cold-water swimming groups, the L Street Brownies.

Hundreds of swimmers braved the freezing waters of Prague’s Vltava River in honor of winter swimming pioneer Alfred Nikodem.

A host of plucky swimmers across Ireland started their Christmas Day with a chilly dip in the sea. The water temperature in Belfast Lough was estimated to be around seven degrees and choppy waves greeted the Brompton Belles and Beaux as they braved the dip in Bangor, Co Down. However, there was hot chocolate and…