Under ice freediving without wetsuit

[rxcnc2]

Timo didn't write that the North Pole is in Finland, only that the Polar Circle is there.. It is also very well known that Santa Claus lives in Finland, his home is some place outside Rovaniemi. I wonder if he could be interested in hosting some freediving under the ice of Lake Inari.

About running a marathon in shorts and sandals, well isn't it cheating? I mean, shorts are a form of clothing. Maybe he had some electrical wiring inside to keep some parts warm. Not without danger, of course.

 

[osusim]

Andrea, Timo is from Finland, so may be he knows some secrets things (which yellow media knows too).
Wim tried once to run without sandals but cut out all skin from his feet till flash.

 

[TimoP]

In 2009, Wim completed a full marathon 42.195 kilometres above the polar circle in Finland in temperatures close to -20 degrees celsius. He achieved this feat dressed in nothing but shorts and sandals

The Polar Circle or the Arctic Circle goes trough The Nordic Countries, Greenland, Siberia, Canada and Alaska:
http://expertvoices.nsdl.org/polar/files/2008/01/arcticmap-circle.gif
[ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polar_circle"]Polar circle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[/ame] In the Polar Circle and to North from it the sun doesn't rise in the mid winter and in the mid summer sun shines during the whole night.

Now here is the first cold weather in this winter, in my town in South Finland -20 C, in the north it is colder. Even with clothes -20 C feels really, really different than -5 C. The coldness is "biting" you. In a deep freezer there is normally -18 C.
So being almost naked in -20 - -30 C air for hours or in icy water for over a hour is something really extreme, most people couldn't survive it even if used to cold winters. I can be in the icy water in the the hole in the lake ice only 5 sec, but one freediver in our club has been there 5 minutes, with a normal swimming suit and neoprene socks (without socks when coming up in cold wheather wet feet can freeze and stuck to stairs or to platform).

There are every winter the World Championships in winter (ice) swimming with normal swimming suits, next 2010 in Slovenia:
http://www.2010winterswimming.com/

It has often said that putting you head into ice water may cause problems, because humans haven't fat around brains, only a thin skull.
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[titan]

Now here is the first cold weather in this winter, in my town in South Finland -20 C, in the north it is colder. Even with clothes -20 C feels really, really different than -5 C. The coldness is "biting" you. In a deep freezer there is normally -18 C.
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what are you still doing there?!?!?! ruuuuuuuuuuun

 

[TimoP]

what are you still doing there?!?!?! ruuuuuuuuuuun

Waiting for more snow, so could go to skiing. And White Christmas.
In fact now it's not feeling so biting cold than yesterday when temperature dropped 10 degrees in some hours and it was windy. The wind means a lot if the air is cold already. Especially if you are wet without clothes (I'm not, now).

Edit: Our dog is from the North. He wants to be outside, especially if there is snow. Now it has been 2 hours in -20 C, not wanting to come in or to go to warm isolated dog house. This dog breed can be outside even if -35 C, but then it dig a hole in the snow (if there is it), cause inside the snow it's warmer. Now I go to take the dog inside for the night, even if he don't want to.

 

[sross]

heh, heh,

Here's a group of ice swimmers in Mnachuria warming up with a little spot of football in their Santa Claus hats (and not much else ) before going in:

The caption from Reuters says "Winter swimmers play soccer on the snow-covered Songhua river in Harbin, Heilongjiang province, December 19, 2009. (REUTERS/Sheng Li)"

Seemed like a great picture that says Merry Christmas to all water lovers everywhere

 

[TimoP]

In many places in you can already take, besides a hot sauna with + 60 C -+100 C, an extreme cold treatment -110 C:
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Notice 'the warm up rooms' with -30 and -60 C , before you go to -110 C rofl

He has done his Personal Best -115,8 ....
degrees C.

It's used as a medical treatment for ache and pain (rheumatism etc), but also for athletics and just for fun (?). Just in those clothes as the man has in the pic. The air is extreme cold but dry. The treatment has the same effects than swimming in the icy water.

The freediver, who's been once 5 min in a icy water in swimming suit, told me that in the water (after some minutes) he got some kind of strong electrical shocks in his arms etc. But he didn't had any ache after that for a long time...
Almost everybody have tingle in the skin in a cold water (under about 10 C), but those electrical shocks were something really different. You don't get those shocks in the extreme cold air treatment (in the normal treatment time).

There are extreme cold treatments available in Germany and in the Nordic and Baltic countries, but probably elsewhere too. In Siberia they don't need any rooms for that purpose.
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[Steinar]

I dont know if you tried diving under ice yet Mlean, but I recommend you to wait until the weater is nice. Its realy a huge differance. Make sure you have lots of warm clothes to put on after the dive. Try to put on some weigth. It works for the seals, those fat bastards.


Stig diving in Oslo:
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zMi6boeWSY]YouTube - Stig Severinsen - Oslo Ice Challenge 2009[/ame]

 

[nostres]

In many places in you can already take, besides a hot sauna with + 60 C -+100 C, an extreme cold treatment -110 C:
(sorry didn't get smaller pic)

Timo, it may be cold but Your wife is hot

 

[TimoP]

Sorry, she is not my wife (although looks a little like her). I found that pic from the web by google.
You can be sure that my wife woundn't go to a -110 C room. A Chrismas present to a -110 C treatment wouldn't be a a good idea :rcard
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[emero]

There's one more guy, that hasn't been mentioned here - Krzysztof Polaczek from Poland:
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbKY_z1I1rY]YouTube - WORLD RECORD - POLAND[/ame]