Hundreds gather in Huntington Beach

to be baptized with cold dunk in the ocean

'I felt like I was washing off my past. I left all that pain in the water

and came back as a new person,' says a cancer patient recently

separated from her husband.

Saying a prayer, Chris Daniels, center, prays with Stefan Marchand after he was baptized as more than 500 worshipers participate in a Christian re