Barbara Milenka Hernández Huerta, known as the Ice Mermaid or Sirena de Hielo, was featured in a documentary film in her native Chile about her 2.5 km swim in Antarctica in 2°C water in 46 minutes 30 seconds. Her Guinness World Record swim was the longest swim in the Southern Ocean and part of her campaign to establish a marine protected areas for the Antarctic Peninsula, which Chile developed in partnership with Argentina in 2018.
Enjoy the 53-minute film entirely subtitled in English.
She describes more fully here in a guest blog with the Antarctic and Southern Ocean Coalition.
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Amazing. Simply Great . Hearty congratulations.
I cried, what a beautiful accomplishment! She did this as safely as possible.