An expeditioner jumps into an ice hole to celebrate the winter solstice at Davis Station in the Australian Antarctic Territory on June 21, 2009. With air temperatures hovering around -23C (-9.4F), Australian scientists and winter crew marked the shortest day of the year with a dip in the polar waters followed by a hot dinner.
HELL NO lets talk shrinkage
I may live in Alaska, but I ain’t that crazy!! (It’s pleasantly warm here in Anchorage)
infi – That has got to be way beyond shrinkage. I’m thinking that he’ll be looking like a woman for a month.
nothing like a polar bear plunge to stop i mean get the ol heart pumping.
MCW had i known you where in anchorage i would have met up with you to i spent 3 days there on the way through.
bad photoshoped..
Obviously it’s not photoshopped. Almost every city and town around the Great Lakes does this every winter. Milwaukee, Chicago, Cleveland, Buffalo, Detroit, Toronto, and lots of little places in between. They usually call themselves Polar Bear Clubs, and during Jan & Feb every year, they go out and chop a hole in the ice and jump in. It doesn’t last long, about 30 seconds, but hundreds of people do it. Over 1200 people did it in Chicago this year.
Here’s some video of the Aussies in Antarctica: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OiSplSOIBM4
Yeah! Yeah! Big deal. We do the same thing here in New Orleans on the summer solstice.