Two underwater swimmers will hold their breath and attempt to break a UK record this month in New Malden.
Alan Barber, 35, the current UK record holder will attempt to swim 202 metres with a single fin attached to his feet.
In February he swam 127 metres without fins, achieving a 'white card' (not breaking cover) and staying underwater for 2 minutes and 12 seconds.
His colleague Liv Philip, the current double UK record holder, will try 120 metres with no fins.
International freediving coach Marcus Greatwood said: "It is just like swimming underwater as a child. You try and do a width but your mate is trying to do a length. But this is on a different scale. It is extremely difficult."
The attempt, on July 24, at the Malden centre in Blagdon Road, will be witnessed by a representative of AIDA, the worldwide federation for breath-hold diving.
For more in this story see next Wednesday's Surrey Comet.
Watch videos of the swimmers
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