Czech free-diver breaks ice-swim world report

“It will do,” Vencl mentioned after rising from his minute-and-half swim in water measured at temperatures of three levels Celsius and pumping his fist in celebration.

The 38-year-old modified the situation for the report try to a former quarry in Lahost, 100 kilometres north-west of Prague, from a glacial lake in Austria as a result of COVID restrictions which made worldwide journey troublesome.

Vencl, who dropped into the water via one gap minimize within the one-foot-thick ice earlier than rising from one other, beat the earlier report of 250 toes set by Denmark’s Stig Avall Severinsen in October, 2017 in southern Greenland.