Germans brave cold for New Year's Day plunge

Описание: (1 Jan 2023)
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Lake Oranke, Berlin - 1 January 2023
1. Various of Berliner Seals swimming club members plunging into 6.6 degree water on first dip of the New Year in Lake Oranke
2. SOUNDBITE (German) Ursula Schwarz, 70 years-old, member of Berliner Seals winter ice swimming club:
“With the community here it's a lot of fun. When you leave the water after swimming you have a feeling that your happiness hormones are flowing. And I have been involved now for so long with this (swimming club). This is my thirty seventh year and something would just be missing when I couldn’t go swimming on a Sunday.”
3. Members take photos in fancy dress while in water
4. Various of Berliner Seals swimming club members in fancy dress while in water
5. SOUNDBITE (German) Anton Kruckel, 19 years-old from Berlin:
“I have just been in for the third time now. New Year new resolutions, I feel fantastic…success .. Yeah.”
6. Member with sparkler and top hat
7. Various of Berliner Seals swimming club members in fancy dress while in water
8. SOUNDBITE (German) Ursula Schwarz, 70 years-old, member of Berliner Seals winter ice swimming club:
(On wishes for the New Year 2023)
“Most importantly health, and that world would be somewhat more peaceful and of course that we can further enjoy our swimming club and continue our hobby of ice dipping and swimming.”
9. Mid of members in water chatting with each other
10. Mid of man waving happily
11. SOUNDBITE (German) Boris Paunow from Berlin and member of Berliner Seals:
(On thoughts for the New Year)
“Maybe for those who suffered a loss last year or a personal loss, that they have more strength this year and experience wonderful things.”
12. People leaving water
13. SOUNDBITE (German) Anton Kruckel, 19 years-old from Berlin:
(On the upcoming year 2023)
“This year I want to go ice swimming more regularly and I want to learn how to do a double Salto (water jump).”
14. Wide of members during New Years Day dip
STORYLINE:
Wishes of happiness and a more peaceful world topped the lists for the New Year, as members of Berliner Seals swimming club braced the cold waters of Berlin's Lake Oranke on Sunday.

The annual New Years Day dip was milder than previous years, with outside temperatures of 16 degrees and water temperatures of 6.6 degrees.

Members of the swimming club donned fancy dress to take the plunge and reflected on their goals for the new year.

“This year I want to go ice swimming more regularly and I want to learn how to do a double Salto (water jump),” said Anton Kruckel, a 19 year-old from Berlin.

70 year-old member Ursula Schwarz is in her seventh year with the club.

“With the community here it's a lot of fun. When you leave the water after swimming you have a feeling that your happiness hormones are flowing," she said.

AP Video shot by: Donogh McCabe

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