Dive into the South Pole Sea 97m, the world record

A group of Russian divers has made an unprecedented deep dive off the Antarctic coast after plunging into an active Antarctic crater at a depth of 97m.

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These divers are members of the "South Pole-100" expedition of the Russian Geographic Society. No one had ever dived to such depths in Antarctica before.

The goal of the expedition is to set a deep diving record, study the underwater ecosystem of the South Pole and test new diving methods and equipment in harsh conditions.

A divers in the expedition is diving into Antarctica - (Photo: RT)

To make this dive, the expedition sailed from Argentina's Ushuaia port to the South Shetland Islands. Their destination is Deception Island, where the mouth of a volcano is active in the sea.

Here, they meet a great storm coming. So they only have 8 hours to do the dive.

"The safe depth for diving in the Antarctic is 20 meters and no one has dived deeper. We have dived twice - once 97 meters deep and once 45 meters , " said research leader Dmitry Schiller, RT 27 / 12 posted.

He also said divers had stayed under the volcano for 5 minutes, enough to test and sample the seabed. The water temperature was then -3 degrees Celsius. After that, the divers went up, they took up to 71 minutes due to the safety process. This is also the biggest challenge for the whole group, not when it comes down.

"We have to go through a little ice and almost can't see anything , " Shiller said.

It is known that this expedition is the third phase of the "Extremely Cold" project, which aims to study the underwater ecosystem of the North and South Pole, developing a diving method in extreme conditions.

In the first two phases, the expedition team studied the unique lakes of the Yakutia region and established two world records for deep diving in the extreme cold.