Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe Jan. 11 (UPI) -- A Moscow swimmer took to frozen Lake Baikal in Siberia to break the Guinness World Record for longest under-ice swim. Yekaterina Nekrasova, 40, wore only a one-piece swimsuit when she plunged into Lake Baikal and swam a distance of about 280 feet under the ice without surfacing for air. Advertisement Nekrasova, who was forbidden by Guinness rules from wearing a wet suit or flippers during her swim, completed the feat in about 1 1/2 minutes. The swimmer beat the previous world record of 230 feet, which was set by South African swimmer Amber Fillary in Norway in 2020. Read More Soap opera actor finds python slithering on his home's toilet Man chops through apples while juggling knives for Guinness record Stop for a salad earns North Carolina man a $100,000 lottery jackpot