An Exhilarating Dip in the Bone-Chilling Sea

Outside Podcast

Wilderness, Sports

4.3 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 18 January 2023

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

For a community of hardy souls in Maine, there’s no better way to feel fully alive in winter than immersing yourself in the frigid Atlantic. Yes, the entrance is jolting. But if you take it slow, you allow for what members of the group call “a conversation with the nervous system” that produces a sensation you can’t achieve any other way: a powerful, blossoming inner warmth that’s both delightful and grounding, leaving you with a lasting elevated mood and enhanced feelings of empathy and responsiveness. In this episode, from our friends at the Outside/In podcast, we learn how the dippers found their way to this bold practice, and why they’ll never give it up. Interested in trying cold-water immersion? Outside/In offers some safety tips before you get started).

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0:44.8	From outside magazine, this is the outside podcast.
0:55.6	About five years ago, the journalist Bonitoi was working on a book about swimming.
1:00.8	For her research, she spent time with an accomplished open water swimmer named Kim Chambers, who
1:05.8	was the first woman to swim from the Farrellon Islands to the Golden Gate Bridge.
1:10.0	That's a 30-mile swim in the very cold Pacific Ocean.
1:14.2	To understand some of what Kim had endured, Bonitoi joined her for a much shorter swim
1:19.0	in the San Francisco Bay, which is also chilly.
1:22.7	Bonitoi remembers being nervous and marveling at how calm Kim was.
1:27.0	A cold, January morning, it's drizzling and it just looks extremely uninviting to get
1:32.7	into the water.
1:34.7	And I just remember looking at her and she just was so relaxed and for me, I had to really
1:43.0	gird myself and dive in.
1:45.2	And then when I dove in, it was a shock, but it didn't feel like cold, it felt hot.
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