Swimmer sets record of Longest Swim Under Ice by spanning 250 feet beneath ice cover, on a single breath, wearing only a Speedo. Stig Severinsen says of remarkable feat, ‘I just sleep almost, in that emptiness and that freedom. I kind of do everything in slow motion’.
Stig Åvall Severinsen (Denmark) swam 76.2 m (250 ft) under ice at Qorlortoq Lake (Lake 40) in Ammasslik Island, Sermersoq Municipality, East Greenland on 17 April 2013. The depth of the ice was between 80 and 100 cm (2.62 and 3.28 feet).
Swimming a distance of 250 feet beneath the surface on a single breath is no simple feat. But throw in the fact that the swim is under three feet of ice cover, and the swimmer has no wetsuit–only a Speedo–and the feat becomes downright remarkable.
So remarkable that Stig Severinsen’s recent 1-minute, 26-second jaunt beneath an ice-covered lake in East Greenland, to an escape hole 250 feet away, has been recognized as a Guinness World Record. (Video is posted below.
