Post by LSDeep on Jun 21, 2006 13:14:20 GMT -5
Underwater press conference
A group of 21 Austrian journalists claim to have broken a world record after taking part in an underwater press conference.
The reporters, clad in full diving gear, swam 16ft below the surface of the Traun Lake in Austria.
Special waterproof paper and pens were handed out for the journalists to ask questions and an underwater flipchart was set up for the presentation.
The press conference was to launch a new book on diving by Austrian authors Leo Ochsenbauer und Klaus-M. Schremser.
The group are now planning to submit their claim with the Guinness Book of Records after a public notary witnessed the event.
The current world record is held by 15 reporters who took part in an underwater press conference last year in Las Vegas.
Blind diver breaks his own record
A Sussex sportsman has set a new world record by becoming the first blind diver to reach a depth of 100 metres.
Mark Threadgold, 38, from Saltdean, lost his sight six years ago but has already notched up world records for power boating and water speed.
He achieved his latest record - something very few sighted divers have achieved - in the Red Sea, in Egypt.
He smashed the previous record, which he also held, by 30 metres following months of intensive training.
Speaking earlier this year, the experienced diver said: "Just because I'm blind, it doesn't stop me doing anything that anybody else does. We've still got ambitions - if you can do it, I can do it too."
Mr Threadgold is a member of the Brighton-based charity for blind ex-servicemen and women, St Dunstans.
A group of 21 Austrian journalists claim to have broken a world record after taking part in an underwater press conference.
The reporters, clad in full diving gear, swam 16ft below the surface of the Traun Lake in Austria.
Special waterproof paper and pens were handed out for the journalists to ask questions and an underwater flipchart was set up for the presentation.
The press conference was to launch a new book on diving by Austrian authors Leo Ochsenbauer und Klaus-M. Schremser.
The group are now planning to submit their claim with the Guinness Book of Records after a public notary witnessed the event.
The current world record is held by 15 reporters who took part in an underwater press conference last year in Las Vegas.
Blind diver breaks his own record
A Sussex sportsman has set a new world record by becoming the first blind diver to reach a depth of 100 metres.
Mark Threadgold, 38, from Saltdean, lost his sight six years ago but has already notched up world records for power boating and water speed.
He achieved his latest record - something very few sighted divers have achieved - in the Red Sea, in Egypt.
He smashed the previous record, which he also held, by 30 metres following months of intensive training.
Speaking earlier this year, the experienced diver said: "Just because I'm blind, it doesn't stop me doing anything that anybody else does. We've still got ambitions - if you can do it, I can do it too."
Mr Threadgold is a member of the Brighton-based charity for blind ex-servicemen and women, St Dunstans.