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Another week, another world record. The world depth record for ironing under water has yet again be broken - or more accurately reclaimed - by Louise Trewavas, aka Dive Girl.
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The London Eye is 135m high. The new world record for extreme ironing, set by Louise Trewavas (Dive Girl) is a depth of 137m (452 feet).
According to Dive Girl's press release, she: "took an ironing board and iron to 137m in the Blue Hole, at the Red Sea resort of Dahab, to reclaim her extreme ironing world record. The event took place on 17 August and was captured on underwater video by dive buddy Steve Brown. Dive computers carried by both divers recorded the depth of the dive, and the divers had to spend over three hours in the water carrying out decompression stops in order to avoid the bends."
It looks pretty straight to us and we're happy to re-award the status of world record holder to Louise. Here at the EIB, we're not surprised she's taken the steps to reclaim her crown - just a little surprised it was so quick.
The extreme ironing underwater record was first set by the 39-year-old Londoner in 2003 with an impressive display of linen-pressing at 100m. Last month, however, Teignmouth-based diver John Rudolph challenged for the title by ironing a T-shirt on a 129m dive.
Not to be out-laundered, Louise Trewavas sank to new depths to reclaim her title. “Records are there to be broken, but the boys will have to do better than that if they want to beat me. Bring it on,” Louise says.
You can download the video here (it's a pretty big file folks).
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Posted by: Steam on Monday, August 28, 2006 - 04:30 PM
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