A Czech freediver has set a world report in males’s swimming underneath ice.
David Vencl swam the longest distance of 80.9 metres holding his breath on Tuesday. In this class, freedivers can not use any fin, diving go well with, cap and weights.
The earlier report was 76.2 metres by Stig Severinsen of Denmark in April 2013, based on the Guinness World Records.
Vencl took one minute 35 seconds for the report at a lake in Lahost in northern Czech Republic.
“It was faster than I expected, I felt great,” Vencl stated. “I knew for sure that I will swim the 80 metres but, of course, that weight of the moment was the only thing that was tiring me down a little bit.”
Organizers stated the ice was no less than 30 centimetres thick, a situation for the report to be acknowledged.