One of Vancouver's favourite New Year's Day traditions — the annual Polar Bear Swim — was celebrated by thousands again on Wednesday, in an event that has now spread across the world.

A March-time polar bear plunge is not only a freezing dip for a good cause, it’s also a signal that spring is almost upon us. Each year, hundreds of people line up along the shoars of Olcott ...

A happy day out to the zoo was shattered when a woman fell into the polar bear exhibit and started swimming towards the ...

International Polar Bear Day is an annual event celebrated every ... polar bears may be forced to swim longer distances between ice floes or to reach land. Prolonged swims can lead to exhaustion ...

At 2:30 p.m. today, more than 2,000 people will sprint into English Bay for the 96th annual Vancouver Polar Bear Swim ... the 46th annual New Year's Day swim. Then at noon, they'll jump ...

Share this Story : Photos: The 2024 Polar Bear Swim at English Bay and elsewhere in B.C.

Join Provincetown on the first day of 2025 for its seventh annual Polar Bear Plunge at 11 a.m., at the 14 Johnson St. parking lot, Provincetown. Festivities also include DJ Chris Racine.

The La Jolla Cove Swim Club welcomed the community to join them for a dive into the chilly Pacific Ocean to ring in 2025 during the New Year`s Day Polar Bear Plunge. Ed Lenderman has the story.