Amber Filary Sets New Under-Ice Freediving World Record

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South African freediver Amber Filary this past weekend feature a brand new Guinness World List — ladies’s and men’s — for the longest below-ice swim without a fins, no weights (no longer even a neck weight) and carrying handiest a swimsuit.

Filary swam 90m (295feet) in a frozen lake end to Kongsberg, Norway, surpassing Czech freediver David Vencl’s February 2021 myth of virtually about 81m (265.5ft).

Amber Filary
Amber Filary (Image credit: Fredrik Bournac)

The longest distance Amber did in coaching used to be 100m/328feet, nonetheless the crew wanted to accomplish particular she would organize to feature a myth on the particular day even when her nerves bought to her, in accordance with freediving teacher Arve Gravningen, the owner of Fridykker.com and organizer of the are attempting:

“She even had vitality left on the discontinuance of the swim to present two thumbs as a lot as the digicam sooner than breaking the ground.”

Filary’s crew are already planning to feature one more myth of 100m or more subsequent twelve months.

You can glance a video of her swim below, or study out Filary’s crowdfunding page.

John Lianghttps://www.deeperblue.com/

John Liang is the Info Editor at DeeperBlue.com. He first bought the diving worm whereas in High College in Cairo, Egypt, the build he earned his PADI Originate Water Diver certification within the Red Sea off the Sinai Peninsula. Since then, John has dived in a volcanic lake in Guatemala, amongst white-tipped sharks off the Pacific Fly of Costa Rica, and a bunch of places including a pool in Las Vegas serving to to interrupt the sphere myth for a very unparalleled underwater press conference.