Sashko is the chairman of the Cryophile club, a cold-water swimming club located in the ... members are able to chat and relax between swims. On Polar Bear Day, members held a flashmod at the ...

PRAGUE (AP) — Czech cold-water swimmers on Saturday set a new world record for the largest polar bear dip ... world record four years ago in men’s swimming under ice when he swam a record ...

Shift Supervisor Scott Merkle said the water was 39.9 degrees farenheit. Mark Stuerzenberger has been doing the Polar Bear Club Swim for 35 years. He said sometimes, so cold that he can feel his ...

When the bear slipped into the water, he just waited. 'There was just a flat, world of water and ice and this polar bear swimming lazily around me. I could hear her slow, regular breathing as she ...

This record-setting event beat the previous global record of 1,799 participants, which was set in Poland in 2015 during the XIIth Ice Swimmers Convention.

April 14 (UPI) --A total 2,461 bathers braved the frigid waters of the Czech Republic's second-largest lake to break a world record for the largest polar bear dip ... where the water was measured ...

BERLIN, Germany (CNN)-- A polar ... polar bears swimming nearby, said Goerg Gebhard, a Berlin police officer. At one point the woman fell back into the water and was grabbed by a bear before ...

The scientists, who are studying bears around the Beaufort sea, north of Alaska, recorded a polar bear swimming for more nine days and covering a distance of 687km (426 miles). Their findings were ...

Polar bears are the planet’s biggest land-based carnivores – although they actually spend most of their lives around water and ice (their Latin name means ‘sea bear ... are strong swimmers – they can ...