Russian
researchers have reached the bottom of Labynkyr, one of the coldest lakes on
Earth, popularly known as the Russian Loch Ness for the legend of it being
inhabited by a cryptozoological monster. Guinness World Records took note of
unique dive.
-71
Celsius (-96 F) is how low temperatures can get in the Siberian village of
Oymyakon in Yakutia, home to lake Labynkyr. Located in a ‘Pole of Cold’, one of
three places on Earth with the coldest air temperatures, it welcomed the
expedition of the Russian Geographical Society with a relatively ‘mild’ -45 C
(-49 F).
One
of the crew of ten, Viktor Ozarenko, optimistically noted in his FB: “It’s
warm in Oymyakon, just -45 C, can’t wait to swim”.
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| Photo by Russian Geographical Society (www.rgo.ru) |
The
man who actually carried out the historic plunge was, however, the leader of
the group, Dmitry Shiller. The diving pioneer gave his reasons for wanting to
go: “By now almost all the land on earth has been studied, but terra firma
is only 30% of the planet! I’m sure there are a lot of secrets under water, so
that’s where all of the science will go in the near future”.
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