{"id":3679,"date":"2017-02-25T14:10:50","date_gmt":"2017-02-25T19:10:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/?p=3679"},"modified":"2017-02-25T14:10:50","modified_gmt":"2017-02-25T19:10:50","slug":"watch-more-than-7000-plunge-in-seaside-heights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/2017\/02\/watch-more-than-7000-plunge-in-seaside-heights\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: More Than 7,000 Plunge in Seaside Heights"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"v-WD7R8vhA-1\" class=\"video-player\"><iframe title='VideoPress Video Player' aria-label='VideoPress Video Player' width='1000' height='562' src='https:\/\/videopress.com\/embed\/WD7R8vhA?hd=1&amp;cover=1&amp;loop=0&amp;autoPlay=0&amp;permalink=0&amp;muted=0&amp;controls=1&amp;playsinline=0&amp;useAverageColor=0&amp;preloadContent=metadata' frameborder='0' allowfullscreen data-resize-to-parent=\"true\" allow='clipboard-write; presentation'><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Over 7,000 people took a not-so-polar plunge on Saturday in Seaside Heights, part of an annual tradition to raise over $1.7 million for Special Olympics New Jersey.<\/p>\n<p>The water was practically freezing \u2013 43 degrees \u2013 but the air temperature hovered around 60, making this year\u2019s event one of the \u201cwarmest\u201d ever. That didn\u2019t stop the chilly effect of a swim, though, but \u201cevery second of the cold pain was worth it,\u201d one plunger told us, for Special Olympics New Jersey.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3685\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/DSC_0453.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"The 2017 Seaside Heights Polar Plunge. (Photo: Daniel Nee\/Shorebeat)\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3685\" class=\"size-large wp-image-3685\" src=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/DSC_0453-1024x681.jpg\" alt=\"The 2017 Seaside Heights Polar Plunge. (Photo: Daniel Nee\/Shorebeat)\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/DSC_0453-1024x681.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/DSC_0453-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/DSC_0453-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/DSC_0453-632x420.jpg 632w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/DSC_0453-640x426.jpg 640w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/DSC_0453-681x453.jpg 681w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3685\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The 2017 Seaside Heights Polar Plunge. (Photo: Daniel Nee\/Shorebeat)<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_3686\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/DSC_0455.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-1\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"The 2017 Seaside Heights Polar Plunge. (Photo: Daniel Nee\/Shorebeat)\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3686\" class=\"size-large wp-image-3686\" src=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/DSC_0455-1024x681.jpg\" alt=\"The 2017 Seaside Heights Polar Plunge. (Photo: Daniel Nee\/Shorebeat)\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/DSC_0455-1024x681.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/DSC_0455-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/DSC_0455-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/DSC_0455-632x420.jpg 632w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/DSC_0455-640x426.jpg 640w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/DSC_0455-681x453.jpg 681w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3686\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The 2017 Seaside Heights Polar Plunge. (Photo: Daniel Nee\/Shorebeat)<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_3687\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/DSC_0457.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-2\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"The 2017 Seaside Heights Polar Plunge. (Photo: Daniel Nee\/Shorebeat)\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3687\" class=\"size-large wp-image-3687\" src=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/DSC_0457-1024x681.jpg\" alt=\"The 2017 Seaside Heights Polar Plunge. (Photo: Daniel Nee\/Shorebeat)\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/DSC_0457-1024x681.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/DSC_0457-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/DSC_0457-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/DSC_0457-632x420.jpg 632w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/DSC_0457-640x426.jpg 640w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/DSC_0457-681x453.jpg 681w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3687\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The 2017 Seaside Heights Polar Plunge. (Photo: Daniel Nee\/Shorebeat)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Teams included the annual \u201cKool Nutz\u201d crew from Hooks, Central Regional High School, police departments from across the state and numerous local organizations.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3689\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/DSC_0462.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-3\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"The 2017 Seaside Heights Polar Plunge. (Photo: Daniel Nee\/Shorebeat)\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3689\" class=\"size-large wp-image-3689\" src=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/DSC_0462-1024x681.jpg\" alt=\"The 2017 Seaside Heights Polar Plunge. (Photo: Daniel Nee\/Shorebeat)\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/DSC_0462-1024x681.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/DSC_0462-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/DSC_0462-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/DSC_0462-632x420.jpg 632w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/DSC_0462-640x426.jpg 640w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/DSC_0462-681x453.jpg 681w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3689\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The 2017 Seaside Heights Polar Plunge. (Photo: Daniel Nee\/Shorebeat)<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_3688\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/DSC_0449.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-4\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"The 2017 Seaside Heights Polar Plunge. (Photo: Daniel Nee\/Shorebeat)\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3688\" class=\"size-large wp-image-3688\" src=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/DSC_0449-1024x681.jpg\" alt=\"The 2017 Seaside Heights Polar Plunge. (Photo: Daniel Nee\/Shorebeat)\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/DSC_0449-1024x681.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/DSC_0449-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/DSC_0449-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/DSC_0449-632x420.jpg 632w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/DSC_0449-640x426.jpg 640w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/DSC_0449-681x453.jpg 681w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3688\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The 2017 Seaside Heights Polar Plunge. (Photo: Daniel Nee\/Shorebeat)<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_3684\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/DSC_0452.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-5\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"The 2017 Seaside Heights Polar Plunge. (Photo: Daniel Nee\/Shorebeat)\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3684\" class=\"size-large wp-image-3684\" src=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/DSC_0452-1024x681.jpg\" alt=\"The 2017 Seaside Heights Polar Plunge. (Photo: Daniel Nee\/Shorebeat)\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/DSC_0452-1024x681.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/DSC_0452-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/DSC_0452-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/DSC_0452-632x420.jpg 632w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/DSC_0452-640x426.jpg 640w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/DSC_0452-681x453.jpg 681w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3684\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The 2017 Seaside Heights Polar Plunge. (Photo: Daniel Nee\/Shorebeat)<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_3683\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/DSC_0450.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-6\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"The 2017 Seaside Heights Polar Plunge. (Photo: Daniel Nee\/Shorebeat)\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3683\" class=\"size-large wp-image-3683\" src=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/DSC_0450-1024x681.jpg\" alt=\"The 2017 Seaside Heights Polar Plunge. (Photo: Daniel Nee\/Shorebeat)\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/DSC_0450-1024x681.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/DSC_0450-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/DSC_0450-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/DSC_0450-632x420.jpg 632w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/DSC_0450-640x426.jpg 640w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/DSC_0450-681x453.jpg 681w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3683\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The 2017 Seaside Heights Polar Plunge. (Photo: Daniel Nee\/Shorebeat)<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_3682\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/DSC_0472.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-7\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"The 2017 Seaside Heights Polar Plunge. (Photo: Daniel Nee\/Shorebeat)\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3682\" class=\"size-large wp-image-3682\" src=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/DSC_0472-1024x681.jpg\" alt=\"The 2017 Seaside Heights Polar Plunge. (Photo: Daniel Nee\/Shorebeat)\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/DSC_0472-1024x681.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/DSC_0472-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/DSC_0472-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/DSC_0472-632x420.jpg 632w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/DSC_0472-640x426.jpg 640w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/DSC_0472-681x453.jpg 681w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3682\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The 2017 Seaside Heights Polar Plunge. (Photo: Daniel Nee\/Shorebeat)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The full total of how much money was raised will be tallied by the end of the weekend, organizers said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fb-share-button fcbkbttn_large_button \" data-href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/2017\/02\/watch-more-than-7000-plunge-in-seaside-heights\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"large\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over 7,000 people took a not-so-polar plunge on Saturday in Seaside Heights, part of an annual tradition to raise over $1.7 million for Special Olympics New Jersey. The water was practically freezing \u2013 43 degrees \u2013 but the air temperature hovered around 60, making this year\u2019s event one of the \u201cwarmest\u201d ever. That didn\u2019t stop [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3690,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[18,5],"tags":[976,1028,130,20,357],"class_list":["post-3679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-seaside-heights","tag-2017-polar-plunge","tag-pba","tag-seaside-heights","tag-seaside-heights-nj-news","tag-special-olympics-new-jersey"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/DSC_0468.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgsn9q-Xl","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3679\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}