Couple Creates Guinness World Record For Longest Underwater Kiss On Valentine's Day
Despite training for a few weeks, Beth and Miles admit the whole thing was a lot more challenging than they anticipated.
As the world celebrated Valentine's Day on February 14 with flowers and presents, a couple decided to celebrate it in a unique way. Beth Neale from South Africa and Miles Cloutier from Canada created a Guinness World Record for 'longest underwater kiss'. The kiss lasted for 4 minutes and 6 seconds beneath the water in an infinity pool at a hotel in the Maldives.
According to the records keeping company, their make-out session broke the previous record of 3 minutes 24 seconds, which was set 13 years ago on Guinness World Records’ Italian TV show Lo Show dei Record.
"These lovebirds set a new underwater kiss record since their joint love was the ocean," read the caption of the video shared by Guinness World Records on its official Twitter handle.
These lovebirds set a new underwater kiss record since their joint love was the ocean 🌊❤️️ pic.twitter.com/ZF16onFfXf
— Guinness World Records (@GWR) February 14, 2023
The couple are divers and live in South Africa with their r one-and-a-half-year-old daughter Neve, said GWR on its website.
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The couple began their attempt at the LUX* South Ari Atoll resort in Maldives at 7.30 am and did some breath hold warm-ups and two trial underwater kisses of two and three minutes before they decided to break the record, mentioned the Guinness World Record on its official website.
Despite training for a few weeks, Beth and Miles admit the whole thing was a lot more challenging than they anticipated.
"Three days before the record I could just not hold my breath," said Beth, according to GMR.
"We couldn’t even reach the existing record – we weren’t even close," added Beth's partner Miles.
Beth is a four-times South African Freedive Champion and has set a number of South African National Freediving records and African Continental Records, according to the GMR website.
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