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VANCOUVER, British Columbia, July 9 (UPI) -- Officials with a Canadian beach said hundreds of people at their beach are expected to participate in the second annual simultaneous North American Skinnydip.
Judy Williams, chairwoman of the Wreck Beach Preservation Society in Vancouver, British Columbia, said hundreds of people are expected to show up to the beach Saturday and shed their clothes for the event, sponsored by the Guinness Book of World Records, the Vancouver Province reported Friday.
"Body acceptance is the idea," Williams said. "We want to introduce people who have never been naked (in public) to the joys of being free to be themselves."
Williams said last year's event set a world record, with 13,674 skinny dippers taking the nude plunge at 139 North American locations, including 489 people at Wreck Beach, making it the most popular Canadian location and the third most popular on the continent.
She said organizers are hoping Wreck Beach will come out ahead of last year's most popular beaches, Gunnison Beach in New Jersey and Haulover Beach in Miami.
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