CZECH FREEDIVER David Vencl has claimed a new Guinness World Record for distance-swimming under ice without thermal protection.
Wearing only trunks and without fins or weights, Vencl took 95 seconds to cover the 81m between two iceholes in a frozen-over Czech quarry on 23 February. The lake was in Lahost, about 60 miles from the capital Prague. The ice was 30cm thick, now a condition for the record, and the water temperature was 3°C.