Estonian swims 18.6 miles with a monofin for Guinness World Record
By Vivian in Sports
Updated 3 years ago
Aug. 4 (UPI) -- An Estonian swimmer celebrated her 30th birthday by swimming 18.6 miles with a monofin and breaking a Guinness World Record. Merle Liivand donned the monofin -- a swimming fin resembling a mermaid's tail -- in Miami Beach, Fla., and went swimming for 9 hours and 19 minutes to achieve the record-breaking distance of 18.6 miles.
