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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.

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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