Finland, apparently, has become a world record for the number of simultaneously diving into the water naked people. On Saturday, July 15, a crowd of 789 people in unison, plunged into the cold water of the Harbor in the heart of Linnunlahti Joensuu. Confirmation from representatives of the Guinness Book of records has not yet been received.
A few weeks earlier, the organizers of the music festival Ilosaarirock invited everyone who bought tickets to the event to take part in unusual events, reports Yle. It was planned to collect a thousand naked divers, thereby breaking the record of Australia who is in the Guinness Book of records.
Collective diving was scheduled for two o’clock on the second day of the festival. Despite the fact that on Saturday, all event tickets were sold out before the beginning of the action only a few hundred people came to undress and wear special green hats to dive.
But at the crucial moment fate intervened, Yle notes: the sun came out, prompting the crowd to exposure. The total number of participants increased to 789, an increase of three compared with the previous record, set on the beach in Perth, Australia March 8, 2015.
According to the organizers of the festival, the swimmers had to stay in the water for five minutes to break the record. 30 seconds before the end of the rally, the crowd spontaneously pulled the national anthem of Finland, which this year celebrates the centenary of its independence.
The skinny dipping was attended not only residents. Some came from other parts of the country to five minutes to stand in icy water without clothes and green hat. “This is not our first swim naked. We trained hard all spring,” – said Henry Halla who came to the East of the city of Espoo in the capital region.
According to the radio station Radio Rock, the organizers of the festival Ilosaarirock waiting for confirmation of the record from the Guinness Book of records. In 2015 and 2016 in Finland, attempts were also made to collect a record number of naked swimmers, but both times managed to attract only about three hundred participants.