Czech Freediver David Vencl Looks To Break Under-Ice Swimming World Record

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Czech freediver David Vencl has equipped plans to strive to interrupt Stig Severinsen’s eight-year-feeble Guinness anecdote for swimming under the ice.

In 2013, Severinsen train the anecdote of 250 feet (76.2 meters) underwater — without fins and even a wetsuit — under one-meter-thick ice on a single breath of air.

If COVID-19 restrictions allow, Vencl will strive to swim 80 meters (262 feet) at the cease of this month under the ice of Lake Weissensee in Carinthia, Austria.

In non-chilly-water conditions, Vencl has swum 141 meters (462.6 feet), and has been training for the under-ice swim by figuring out with chums in Lake Barbora, Teplice within the Czech Republic.

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John Liang is the News Editor at DeeperBlue.com. He first got the diving bug whereas in High College in Cairo, Egypt, where he earned his PADI Originate Water Diver certification within the Crimson Sea off the Sinai Peninsula. Since then, John has dived in a volcanic lake in Guatemala, amongst white-tipped sharks off the Pacific Wing of Costa Rica, and other locations at the side of a pool in Las Vegas helping to interrupt the field anecdote for the pleasant underwater press convention.