If slogging through mud potentially infected with bacteria doesn't seem like a good idea to you, this will probably also fail your survival test: Intrepid athletes donned.
LONDON (AP) – Intrepid athletes donned snorkels and slithered through slime on Sunday during one of Britain’s quirkiest sporting events: the World Bog Snorkeling Championships. The annual competition in the tiny town of Llanwrtyd Wells, Wales, sees competitors race to complete two lengths of a 55-metre water-filled trench cut through a peat bog. They can […]
Once a year, Neil Rutter straps on snorkel and submerges himself into the black, muddy waters of a peat bog and swims as fast as his legs will carry him all while trying to ignore the slippery unknown creatures that brush along his body.