Ice-breakers: assaults on freediving records
RUSSIAN FREEDIVER Alexey Molchanov has claimed a world under-ice depth record following an 80m plunge in Siberia’s Lake Baikal – while French freediver Arthur Guerin-Boeri has staked his claim to a new under-ice distance record of 120m in Finland’s Lake Sonnanen.
On 16 March, Molchanov, 34, descended through the 2°C water from a hole cut in the metre-thick ice in his bid to complete the deepest freedive under ice using a monofin.