“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 document try to a former quarry in Lahost, 100 kilometres north-west of Prague, from a glacial lake in Austria resulting from COVID restrictions which made worldwide journey tough.
Vencl, who dropped into the water by way of one gap reduce within the one-foot-thick ice earlier than rising from one other, beat the earlier document of 250 toes set by Denmark’s Stig Avall Severinsen in October, 2017 in southern Greenland.