Long Beach, Long Island Polar Bears Superbowl Splash 2008

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For the past ten years, on Superbowl sunday people jump into the Atlantic Ocean off of Long Beach (Long Island) NY. I heard about it last year, and this year I decided to join it as well.

We lucked out this year since the air temp was ~47F & sunny, and the ocean was ~41F. I'll update this text if I ever hear the official estimate of how many people were there but I'd say many many thousands.

The event was great, except I was stupid and left my glasses on while I went in!!! And surprise surprise, they didn't come back out with me. :(

Official Site of the Long Beach Polar Bears: http://www.longbeachpolarbears.org/

News Story about the event:
http://www.longbeachny.org/index.asp?Type=B_PR&SEC=%7b33BD7D65-42BC-45CB-...

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[mikedelgado8888]

holy hell that must have been so dang cold..

ur mad Urgo..

[Urgo6667]

@mikedelgado8888 lol it really wasn't that bad, at least this year.

[TheSoCalX11]

ahh i was there this year! i thought my feet needed to be amputated..

[Urgo6667]

What was the temperature there this year. Good turnout?

[lbswimer]

omg i love the polar bear i have been doing it for so long

[Urgo6667]

Yeah! Have fun tomorrow. I'd be there myself if I didn't move to NC this past summer.

[TammyFlores1]

OMG... that's crazy. When I got off the plane this morning to -11 celcius... LA was looking really good LOL

[jonkftw]

One of our family friends use to do this in the river every winter, he used to break a portion of ice in the river and do it for about 30 mins every day..(supposingly to wake him up and refresh)...but its very dangerous...

Hope you had fun!

[vveq]

All these fucking morons have nothing better to do.

[TheSoCalX11]

@Urgo6667 i think it was around 27 degrees and yeah, id say it was a pretty good turnout! always so fun.