Participants in the Coney Island Polar Bear Club new year's swim react as they jump into the Atlantic Ocean in the Coney Island region of New York January 1, 2008. (Agencies)

 

 

Women dressed as Playboy bunnies pose for photographers as they enter the freezing water in the Firth of Forth during the annual 'Looney Dook' charity New Year's Day swim in South Queensferry near Edinburgh, Scotland January 1, 2008. (Agencies)