A Czech man claimed a remarkable feat of human human endurance after he took a dive beneath Switzerland's Lake Sils without a wetsuit and emerged from its 50 meters icy depth.
David Vencl, 40, took a plunge to 52.1 meters in a signle breath. The feat follows David's entry into the Guiness Books of the World Record in 2021 when he swam through the length of a frozen Czech lake.
Without so much as a wetsuit, 40-year-old David Vencl took a single breath before plunging through a drilled hole in the ice in Switzerland s Lake Sils on Tuesday.
(Lake Sils, Switzerland) Free-diver David Vencl is in a class by himself after setting an icy-cold world record Tuesday. The 40-year-old Czech diver took one breath, dove through a hole drilled in the ice on Switzerland's Lake Sils and grabbed a sticker placed more than 170 feet below the surface of the frozen lake. One minute and 54 seconds later, Vencl came up through the