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Divers Swim In Worlds Deepest Lake That Seems To Be Made Of Shards Of Glass

This is the moment divers swim in the world’s deepest lake, which appears to be made up of countless pointed shards of ice like broken glass.

The incredible footage was shot in Lake Baikal, which is a rift lake in southern Siberia between the Russian federal subjects of Irkutsk Oblast and the Buryat Republic.

It is unclear when it was filmed, but it was shared on social media yesterday (3rd May).

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One video shows the group of divers swimming in the lake as countless tiny icicles cover its surface which the men use as skewers as they stab what appears to be fruit and cheese items on a small floating plate of food.

One of the swimmers is seen struggling to pierce a piece of food with the ice and another then films himself eating before the group is seen swimming across the lake as the video ends.

A second video shows the group swimming across the lake which makes a strange sound of ice crunching as the men move the icicles around them.

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Local media that reported the incident said the lake is known for making strange ice formations.

Lake Baikal is the deepest lake in the world with a maximum depth of 5,387 feet.

It holds the Guinness World Record for the largest freshwater lake by volume containing around 5,665.63 cubic miles of water which is roughly 23 percent of the world’s fresh surface water.

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