A South African scuba diver claimed a new world record yesterday after living underwater in a steel tank for 10 days, eating through a tube and watching the skin on his hands shrivel.
Tim Yarrow was cheered by hundreds of onlookers just after 12:30pm, when he climbed out of the tank measuring three by 2,3m, where he had stayed in a Johannesburg shopping centre since November 6.
"The first three days were hell. Absolute hell," an exhausted Yarrow said, showing his wrinkled hands.
Yarrow, 30, spent 240 hours underwater on scuba apparatus in a controlled environment without surfacing. That beat 212 hours and 30 minutes, set in 1986 by Michael Stephens of Britain.
Greg Wharram, who operates a local dive shop with Yarrow, said they had contacted the Guinness Book of World Records beforehand and would now file papers to make the record official.
Yarrow did not sleep the first few days because of a poor-fitting facemask. - Reuters
Tim Yarrow was cheered by hundreds of onlookers just after 12:30pm, when he climbed out of the tank measuring three by 2,3m, where he had stayed in a Johannesburg shopping centre since November 6.
"The first three days were hell. Absolute hell," an exhausted Yarrow said, showing his wrinkled hands.
Yarrow, 30, spent 240 hours underwater on scuba apparatus in a controlled environment without surfacing. That beat 212 hours and 30 minutes, set in 1986 by Michael Stephens of Britain.
Greg Wharram, who operates a local dive shop with Yarrow, said they had contacted the Guinness Book of World Records beforehand and would now file papers to make the record official.
Yarrow did not sleep the first few days because of a poor-fitting facemask. - Reuters