L Street Brownies New Year's Day Plunge In South Boston

Swimmers float during the annual L Street Brownies New Year's Day Plunge at the Curley Community Center in South Boston, Massachussets on January 1, 2019. (Photo credit: JOSEPH PREZIOSO/AFP/Getty Images)

South Boston Polar Plunge

Swimmers enter and exit the water during the annual L Street Brownies New Year's Day Plunge at the Curley Community Center in South Boston, Massachussets on January 1, 2019. (Photo by Joseph PREZIOSO / AFP)

South Boston Polar Plunge

Swimmers enter and exit the water during the annual L Street Brownies New Year's Day Plunge at the Curley Community Center in South Boston, Massachussets on January 1, 2019. (Photo by Joseph PREZIOSO / AFP)

South Boston Polar Plunge

Swimmers enter and exit the water during the annual L Street Brownies New Year's Day Plunge at the Curley Community Center in South Boston, Massachussets on January 1, 2019. (Photo by Joseph PREZIOSO / AFP)

South Boston Polar Plunge

Swimmers enter the water during the annual L Street Brownies New Year's Day Plunge at the Curley Community Center in South Boston, Massachussets on January 1, 2019. (Photo by Joseph PREZIOSO / AFP)

South Boston Polar Plunge

Swimmers enter the water during the annual L Street Brownies New Year's Day Plunge at the Curley Community Center in South Boston, Massachussets on January 1, 2019. (Photo by Joseph PREZIOSO / AFP)

South Boston Polar Plunge

Mark Poutenis applies makeup before the annual L Street Brownies New Year's Day Plunge at the Curley Community Center in South Boston, Massachussets on January 1, 2019. (Photo by Joseph PREZIOSO / AFP)

South Boston Polar Plunge

Tommy Tuba sits a top a lifeguard chair and calls everyone to line up before the annual L Street Brownies New Year's Day Plunge at the Curley Community Center in South Boston, Massachussets on January 1, 2019. (Photo by Joseph PREZIOSO / AFP)

South Boston Polar Plunge

Brion Bickerton waits for the 9 am line up in his 5th year taking part in honor of his late wife, before the annual L Street Brownies New Year's Day Plunge at the Curley Community Center in South Boston, Massachussets on January 1, 2019. (Photo by Joseph PREZIOSO / AFP)

South Boston Polar Plunge

Swimmers enter the water during the annual L Street Brownies New Year's Day Plunge at the Curley Community Center in South Boston, Massachussets on January 1, 2019. (Photo by Joseph PREZIOSO / AFP)

South Boston Polar Plunge

Swimmers leave the water during the annual L Street Brownies New Year's Day Plunge at the Curley Community Center in South Boston, Massachussets on January 1, 2019. (Photo by Joseph PREZIOSO / AFP)

South Boston Polar Plunge

Swimmers enter the water during the annual L Street Brownies New Year's Day Plunge at the Curley Community Center in South Boston, Massachussets on January 1, 2019. (Photo by Joseph PREZIOSO / AFP)

South Boston Polar Plunge

Swimmers line up and start to prepare themselves for the swim during the annual L Street Brownies New Year's Day Plunge at the Curley Community Center in South Boston, Massachussets on January 1, 2019. (Photo by Joseph PREZIOSO / AFP)

South Boston Polar Plunge

Members of the Greater Boston Fire Fighters Pipe and Drum Core play music at the end of the annual L Street Brownies New Year's Day Plunge at the Curley Community Center in South Boston, Massachussets on January 1, 2019. (Photo by Joseph PREZIOSO / AFP)

South Boston Polar Plunge

Richard Evans shows off a photo of his grandfather Richard Bolland, sitting on ice at the L Street Brownies swim of 1904 during the annual L Street Brownies New Year's Day Plunge at the Curley Community Center in South Boston, Massachussets on January 1, 2019. (Photo by Joseph PREZIOSO / AFP)

south boston 2019 polar plunge swim

Swimmers enter the water during the annual L Street Brownies New Year's Day Plunge at the Curley Community Center in South Boston on January 1, 2019. (Photo credit JOSEPH PREZIOSO/AFP/Getty Images)