PRAGUE (AP) — Czech cold-water swimmers on Saturday set a brand new international document for the most important polar endure dip.
A complete of two,461 members had been concerned within the a success try at the Maximum lake in northwest Czech Republic.
The former document was once 1,799 swimmers who participated within the polar endure dip in Mielno, Poland, at the Baltic Sea on Feb. 15, 2015, in line with Guinness Global Information.
For the document to be known, the members must be dressed in bathing fits, be no less than waist-deep in water and keep there all in combination for a minimum of one minute.
The temperature of the water all over the document try was once 3.5 levels Celsius (38.2 levels Fahrenheit). It must be not up to 10 levels Celsius (50 levels Fahrenheit).
“Czechs are a country of polar swimmers,” stated David Vencl, the organizer of the development.
Vencl, a freediver, himself set a global document 4 years in the past in males’s swimming beneath ice when he swam a document distance of 80.9 meters (265 toes).