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A Melbourne diving club yesterday raised more than $600 for a children's charity, and reclaimed a world record for Australia in the emerging extreme sport of underwater ironing, writes Australian newspaper The Age.
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The record now stands at 43 scuba divers, set by the Bay City Scuba Diving Club, in three metres of water in Port Phillip Bay, off the St Leonards Pier, on the Bellarine Peninsula.
The dive took just 25 minutes. Club spokesman Alan Igoe said the dive, using cold non-electric irons, was first suggested as a social event. "We always try to do something to get our members diving after the winter break, but this gained momentum and took off as a chase for a world record," Mr Igoe said. Money raised yesterday will go to the Cottage by the Sea children's holiday charity at Queenscliff.
The Australian divers snatched a six week old record from a sixteen-strong New Zealand group of ironists. Underwater extreme ironing was invented by German extreme ironist, Iron Lung, when he took his iron and board into the Mediterranean sea surrounding Mallorca in 2001.
Check out the bizarre clip on the extremeironing.com download webpage, where there are also clips from the EIB dvd Ironing Under the Sky and the daredevil Aussie ironist, Frinkle Wee, ironing whilst base jumping.
Thanks to The Age, Melbourne's hottest newspaper, for this story.
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Posted by: Steam on Tuesday, November 09, 2004 - 11:58 AM
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