Thrill seekers across Europe take the plunge on New Year’s Day

Lots of gathered in Rome to observe the standard Tiber River New 12 months’s plunge on Sunday, with one veteran diver dedicating his dive to the late Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI.

Following the true Roman custom, 4 Italian divers jumped into the river from the 15-metre-high bridge to welcome within the New 12 months.

One of many divers was Maurizio Palmulli, 70, who plunged into the water for the thirty fifth 12 months in a row as crowds of bystanders watched.

“We’re diving simply to maintain this Roman custom alive. Right here there may be neither politics nor cash. I’m pleased to see many kids as a result of they’re those who will proceed this good custom,” he stated.

In Berlin, members of the Berliner Seals swimming membership braced the chilly waters of the capital’s Lake Orankesee.

The annual New 12 months’s Day dip was milder than earlier years, with outdoors temperatures of 16 levels and water temperatures of 6.6 levels.

Members donned fancy gown outfits to make the leap and mirrored on their targets for the brand new 12 months.

“With the group right here it is plenty of enjoyable. Whenever you depart the water after swimming you might have a sense that your happiness hormones are flowing,” Berliner Seals member Ursula Schwarz stated. 

“And I’ve been concerned now for therefore lengthy. That is my thirty seventh 12 months and one thing would simply be lacking if I couldn’t go swimming on a Sunday.”

Whereas within the Netherlands, thrill seekers blew off their cobwebs and dipped into the icy chilly North Sea as a part of a New 12 months’s Day custom within the seaside city of Scheveningen.

The New 12 months’s Dive, because it’s recognized, has grown into an enormous occasion, and is sponsored by Dutch meals firm Unox, well-known for its sausages.

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