Dipping groups across Maine participating in the second annual Finding Our Voices “Love Yourself” Cold Water Dip will wear yellow and wade into freezing water Sunday, Feb. 9 to raise money for Finding Our Voices and build sisterhood.

"The event is on Super Bowl Sunday because domestic violence traditionally spikes on that day, and the Sunday before Valentine’s Day as a way for women to gather in love for themselves and each other," said Finding Our Voices, in a news release.

In 2024’s event, 500 dippers across Maine raised $10,000 to bring warmth to women and child victims of domestic abuse.

Places and times of established Maine dipping groups participating in the FOV Sunday, February 9, 2025 event include:

9 a.m.

Lincolnville 

Lincolnville Beach (Right side of ferry beach)

Sea Sisters

Brooklin

Naskeag Point 

Snow Moon Selkies from Brooklin AND Stone Cold Dippers from Stonington

11 a.m.

South Portland

Willard Beach

Cold Water Queers

Vinalhaven 

Storybook Trail

Salty Sisters

12 noon

Rockport 

Rockport Harbor

Wicked Nippy Dippahs

1 p.m.

Mount Desert

Long Pond (Pond’s End)

Cold Tits Warm Hearts

4:30 p.m. 

York

York Harbor Beach

Dip Down to Rise Up with Saltwater Mountain Co.

For more information: https://findingourvoices.net/cold-water-dip-2025

Finding Our Voices is the grassroots and survivor-powered nonprofit breaking the silence of domestic abuse across Maine and providing resources to women victims/survivors.

Upcoming events include a Valentine’s Day march educating the public on what love is and what love is not in downtown Lewiston from 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. on February 14.  For more information visit https://findingourvoices.net/