Join Santa Barbara’s Polar Bear Dip
Hugh Margerum and Julie DeAngelis Started Organizing the New Year’s Day Ocean Plunge in 2017
The Polar Dip participants from 2022. | Credit: Courtesy
It was almost six years ago when Julie DeAngelis and Hugh Margerum gathered some friends to head down to East Beach across from the Chromatic Gate and jump into the chilly Pacific Ocean on New Year’s Day.
“We decided to make it an annual tradition,” explains Margerum of that 2017 origin story. “It’s a refreshing way to start the year off and brings people from all walks of life together.”
With the 2023 dip on the horizon, Margerum answered a few of our questions about “Polar Dip Santa Barbara,” to which all are invited.
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