The unusual fundraiser was a way for the men to help the no-kill cat shelter and they hope it inspires others to help too.

The town could lose $450,000 in grant funding for the project if it doesn’t happen in 2017.

The bodies were found inside a home on Pine Knoll Road overnight, WCSH reports.

It was the event’s third consecutive year but the first in which participants didn’t have to chop holes through ice to enter the water.