German divers set underwater table football record

Teams of German divers spent a total of 30 hours playing table football under water in a giant glass aquarium in the town of Kassel to set a new world record, the organizer said on Wednesday.

Harald Foeste, the head of the Kassel diving and water sports centre, said there were 60 teams with two divers on a side playing the 30-minute matches that lasted a total of 30 hours from Monday until late on Tuesday.

Foeste said there was no reason for the dive, which eclipsed a record in the Guinness World Records list of 26 hours set in June in another German town near Wiesbaden.

"It was just for fun," he said.

A special waterproof table and a weighted steel ball were used by the divers. The large aquarium was set up in an exhibition hall and there were large crowds watching, Foeste said...[Reuters India]