British climate activist becomes first man to swim under Antarctic ice sheet

British man swam under Antarctica ice sheet to become first man in recorded history to do so. Lewis Pugh from Plymouth swam in Antarctic river beneath largest glacier on placet only wearing swimming trunks, cap and goggles. 

Spent eight minutes in freezing water

In recently released photographs, 50-year-old swimmer can be seen swimming through a blue tunnel of ice, with melting ice falling around him. Media reports say that water in which Pugh spent nearly eight minutes was only a few degrees above its freezing point. Previously, he tried swimming on January 20 and January 23. All his training swims are preparations for ar 20-minute swim in freezing conditions later this week. final swim will see Pugh attempting to become first person ever to swim across and entire supraglacial lake which is a body of water formed on surface of melting ice cap. 

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Elaborating on his experience to media, swimmer described ice sheets as one of most beautiful places he has ever encountered. He ded that ice h all shes of blue before saying that it was vast, remote and beautiful. He went on to say that 33 years of training has allowed him to swim for those minutes and thanked a team of french mountaineers who helped him get into crevice to swim. 

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In 2007, Pugh, a climate change campaigner and endurance swimmer became first person to complete a long-distance swim across geographic rth Pole. He is also first person to complete a long-distance swim in every ocean of world. While talking to media, he also revealed that 1 km crawl across open patch of sea was to highlight melting of Arctic sea ice. 

On or hand, Australian government has vertised 150 jobs for various positions at research stations on Antarctica to fill a big gap in sector for 2020-21 season. jobs will require applicants to make mselves available from four-month summer stints to 15 months. positions are available in areas ranging from chefs, carpenters, watercraft operator, medical practitioner, welder, electrician, plumber, and many more.