They are not afraid. Elsewhere, however, we don't swear about anything. There were more than a thousand courageous people (1,146 precisely) to jump into the Mediterranean on Sunday for the “first swim of the year”. Lovers of cold sensations met at Grau-du-Roi, the only town in the Gard department with a seafront.
Fifteen degrees on the beach, fourteen degrees in the water, the temperatures did not put off the bathers, many of them coming in disguise (but in swimsuits nonetheless). The record dated from 2024. It exploded. “Last year, there were 615 of us,” explains Esther Mandrin, president of the Aigues-Mortes Bay Rotary Club, the organizer.
Financing of humanitarian works
Registration was free but obligatory (which is very practical for knowing, down to the bather, the number of die-hards). The numerous activities around the event make it possible to finance various actions of the organization during the year. “In twenty years, the club will have distributed more than 200,000 euros for its humanitarian works,” specifies the association.
