Teacher swims 1 km in Arabian Sea with legs chained
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He covered the distance in 25 minutes and 16.63 seconds using the breaststroke
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He covered the distance in 25 minutes and 16.63 seconds using the breaststroke
As the locks of the chain around his legs were removed, Nagaraj Kharvi’s four-year-old son Sanchit ran to hug him. For Mr. Kharvi returned safely after swimming a kilometre in the Arabian Sea, with his legs chained on Friday at Tannirbhavi here.
Mr. Kharvi’s wife Krupa, his brothers, his friends, and fellow swimmers from the Mangala Swimming Club, where he swims daily at the Tannirbhavi beach, followed. Mr. Kharvi, a teacher from Government Higher Primary School at Kalmanja village in Bantwal taluk of Dakshina Kannada, did a breaststroke to cover the distance in 25 minutes and 16.63 seconds. His legs were chained in the ‘Padmasana’ pose and he had made a claim for entry into the India Book of Records.