19 minutes and 46 seconds.
This is the time spent by Stève Stievenart in water at 1°C.
It was in Antarctica that the northern swimmer once again pushed his limits to the extreme.
This specialist in crossing the Channel had set himself the challenge of covering a kilometer in the cold waters of Antarctica near penguins and glaciers.
Challenge successfully met on Saturday February 24.
The “Seal” thus swam “a kilometer near Port Lockroy, an English scientific base, in water at 1°C and outside at 0°C, in a time of 19 minutes and 46 seconds
”;
indicates Stievenart in a press release
.
A new feat for the Wimereusian who completes a well-stocked track record.
Previously, the 46-year-old swimmer had crossed the English Channel six times.
The Everest of open water endurance.
But above all, the northerner had become the first Frenchman to make the round trip and to perform this feat in the middle of winter.
More recently, Stève Stievenart managed to cross the 1.7 km long Beagle Channel between Chile and Argentina in water at around 8°C and in just 46 minutes.
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Behind the exploits of the Northerner lies extreme training.
Eating only fatty fish, taking cold showers in your garden, wearing shorts all year round, sleeping with the window open and swimming among jellyfish to get used to their stings are among the many methods used by the northerner to perform in freezing waters.
At the end of this new extreme race in the great South, the “Seal” was quite happy with his new feat: “I had a lot of fun, even if your hands and feet swell very quickly and it 'is very painful
.'