COVID-19 restrictions on social gatherings.Instead, event organizers are asking brave souls to take part in the annual ritual virtually at 2:30 p.m.They’re suggesting people take a dip in a bathtub or kiddie pool filled with water set at a temperature of 7 degrees Celsius, the average temperature of the water at past Polar Bear Swims.
Vancouver Polar Bear Swim celebrates centennial while White Rock swim holds the anchovies (Jan. 1, 2020) Participants can share their frigid experience online using the hashtag #PBPolarBearDip2021.The 100th edition of the Polar Bear Swim took place in English Bay on Jan.
1 of this year.Vancouver’s first polar bear swim took place in 1920 when Greek immigrant Peter Pantages convinced some friends to join him.