The record-breaking attempt took place on September 10, on Lake
Orhid, in Macedonia, and had Jane Petkov jumping out of a boat in the middle of
the water trying to somehow make his way to shore. His arms and legs were tied
once before putting on the thick bag, and again over the bag, to make sure he
couldn’t use them during his death-defying feat. What’s even more astonishing
is doctors who examined him before the challenge found he was severely anemic,
which, given his age, made the task even more dangerous. Nevertheless, on the
morning of September 10, the amphibian man jumped in the cold water of Lake
Orhid and began to swim on his back like a dolphin.
It took
Jane Petkov 2 hours and 47 minutes to swim a distance of 1.25 miles (over 2
kilometers) and reach the shore, where the organizers of the event helped him
remove the bag. “I was very cold for the first kilometer but after that it was
all fine no problem whatsoever,” he said. ”Had the water been warmer, I could
have swum 10km or more.”
The whole even was filmed from a lifeboat and the footage will
be sent to Guinness Records, in London. Petkov is known as a follower of Peter
Deunov, a renowned Bulgarian religious teacher and founder of a School of
Esoteric Christianity.
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