Unox New Year Dive

The Unox New Year Dive is becoming a pretty big tradition to celebrate new year day by diving into the sea. Mind you, it's winter here in Holland and it's pretty cold already.

It's sponsored by Unox - a soup and sausage brand - and they give everybody who participates an orange icecap / hootie and a cup of pea soup to warm up after the dive.
There are several dives throughout the country with 35.000 participants, but it all started here in Scheveningen, so this is THE place to be, with approximately 10.000 people diving here in this panorama.

I had a front row position, which wasn't easy with probably ten times as much spectators than contestants behind the fences, but I always seems to manage one way or an other ;-)

Join the crowd, just press the 'L' key

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYBODY!!!