“A New Nightmare for Me”: Swimmer’s Scary Ordeal of Escaping From Beneath an Icy Surface Leaves Fans Shell-Shocked

Swimming is often regarded as one of the best exercises in the world. Therefore, people often push their limits and take swimming outdoors to unknown locations in order to push their own physicalities. Sometimes, these locations and these boundaries can be so extreme, that they send a chill down the spine, quite literally. In a rare clip that is giving everyone some serious shivers, a swimmer is trapped underneath an icy surface. He narrowly survived death.

The video which has been going viral online for over a week or so, shows the real-life moments when the swimmer was trying desperately to escape. A certain Mr. Oravec was pulled out of those freezing-cold water just at the right time. The fans were extremely scared for him.

Things could’ve gone very badly for a Slovakian athlete who went swimming

A Facebook post by Boss Radio 98.9FM Owerri went, “Swimmer get trapped under the ice in a frozen lake”. Mr. Boris Oravec is a Slovakian athlete who felt the biggest panic of his life in those few seconds. While this incident is from some time in the past, it has recently resurfaced and re-invoked fear in netizens’ hearts.

The post further went, “For the fact that he could have died of hypothermia if he completely wandered away..” Hypothermia is when humans start to lose heat from their bodies steadily, most often owing to being in extremely cold surroundings. A lake that freezes on the surface happens to fulfill that criterion.

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The video also informs everyone that Mr. Oravec had only half a meter of visibility from his peripheral vision and things were getting increasingly difficult for him.

The netizens are horrified on his behalf

In the end, Mr. Oravec survived this scary ordeal. But this did not stop netizens from getting a horror-movie-type vibe from the clip. Here’s how some of them reacted:

“My God! What a scare!” wrote a person who couldn’t believe what he saw

“I can’t swim in that cold,” wrote someone who simply gave up on even the thought of swimming in such freezing water.

“I certainly gotta have panic attack while watching!!” wrote someone whose words were enough to frighten anyone from ever trying that.

“A new nightmare for me,” wrote another person who might have sleepless nights after this.

“I am getting scared just by watching do this,” wrote another person who could only imagine what Mr. Oravec must have gone through in those moments.

While this clip is sure to give chills to anyone, let alone Mr. Boris Oravec, such lakes do exist in hilly regions around the world which freezes within moments. People do swim in these waters since it is widely believed that cold water plunge often provides better health overall. But it also increases the overall risk as well.

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