Czech freediver David Vencl has broken Stig Severinsen’s eight-year-old Guinness record for swimming under the ice.
In 2013, Severinsen set the record of 250 feet (76.2 meters) underwater — without fins or even a wetsuit — below one-meter-thick ice on a single breath of air.
Vencl last month swam 81 meters (265.75 feet) under the ice of an old quarry northwest of Prague. He originally had planned to do the attempt under the ice of Lake Weissensee in Carinthia, Austria, but COVID-19 travel restrictions put the kibosh on that.
Posted by David Vencl – Freediver on Wednesday, February 24, 2021
