The Barry Island New Year's Day Swim

BARRY, WALES - JANUARY 01: Participants wait to run towards the sea as they take part in the annual New Year's Day swim at Barry Island as several hundred swimmers marked start of 2016 by taking a dip in the sea in Whitmore Bay on January 1, 2016 in Barry, Wales. Since 1984, when a group of five friends from the Jackson's Bay life saving club decided that they would shake off their New Year's hangovers with a swim in the sea, the annual swim has grown into one of the town's most popular calendar events. (Photo by Matt Cardy/Getty Images)