Winter swimming

One way to enjoy Finnish winter is to swim in a hole in the ice (outdoors, naturally). Air temperature was about -30ºC when this video was filmed in Siilinjarvi, Finland.

Music: Jeff Wahl

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[lilg108]

y is there steem coming out i tihnk its a  hot spring

[jollikai]

It is not steam, it's water vapor raising from about 0 celsius water. The vapor condenses in the about -30 celsius cold air. Here is a quotation from a quite good explanation at Yahoo answers:

"At normal surface atmospheric pressure, water evaporates. The vapor is not hot enough to be steam, as from a kettle or heated pot, but it is water vapor, and the lower air temperature cause the vapor to condense enough to be visible."

I thouhgt the canadians would know these thins :-)

[oozgurozkan]

I like the ice swimming, i like finland, i like finnish people, i like this music. what is the song's name?

[jollikai]

Thank you! The song is "Freedom" by Jeff Wahl from album "Guinevere". You can buy the album from magnatune (dot) com

[onearthonelegion]

You poured some hot water there, from a large kettle, just before shooting this footage. Did you not?

[Scandinavian92]

@milkandgoatse Youre an idiot, fag

[ClubDominoEnglish]

Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr­r. Cold?

[TheLegoauto]

@EpicWinzz lolno, they didn't heat the lake

[aabateri]

Brothers <3

[elgagalari]

crazy, i did some winter swimming last year in January in a river in Switzerland but not at temperatures as low as -30. Isn't that dangerous? i guess you trained a lot? did you do that after saunaing?

[elgagalari]

crazy, i did some winter swimming last year in January in a river in Switzerland but not at temperatures as low as -30. Isn't that dangerous? i guess you trained a lot?

[kapankap]

good time))))))))



[EpicWinzz]

LMFAO!!

They heated the lake...? Now that's smart!