Andaman Islands Set Guinness World Record with 73-Foot Underwater Human Tower

The Andaman and Nicobar Islands set a Guinness World Record for the tallest underwater human tower. This record was made at Swaraj Dweep, Havelock Island where an amazing team of scuba divers made an amazing 73-foot (22.3m) vertical underwater stack of humans. The attempt took place at the well-known Lighthouse dive site and required incredible amounts of coordination, balancing and control of the divers under the water. 

The record is officially recorded in the Guinness World Records, which recognizes this record for not only showing the limit of human endurance in a very difficult marine environment but also for demonstrating the advancement of the Andaman Islands into being a major worldwide destination for adventure and scuba diving tourism.

Underwater Human Tower of 73 Feet

Using trained divers, an underwater human pyramid measuring about 73 feet (22.3 meters) tall was built on a site that is usually used for scuba diving. It was the first time that such a human pyramid has been constructed under the ocean.

For every part of the human pyramid to be properly positioned, the divers as a team needed to control their buoyancy, work in coordination, and precisely time their movement with each other. The human pyramid was built in open water with varying currents and differing visibility, so it was much harder to do than on land.

How Was this World Record Made?

At Swaraj Dweep, through the construction of a human tower using fourteen scuba divers, the Guinness World Record was set for the tallest underwater human tower. To build this structure , the divers stacked on top of one another, inline while they were completely suspended from buoyancy with a centre of balance positioned above them.

Since there is a restriction on how divers can communicate while submerged, they used hand signals to speak and stuck to a strict set of protocols. Once they completed their training, practiced extensively to develop their skills as a team, and performed multiple safety checks to ensure they could remain in the formation for enough time to constitute an official record by Guinness, the divers successfully built the tallest underwater human tower.

Precision, Training and Teamwork

The record attempt was carefully planned, rather than a simple task. The divers were trained for several months to ensure stability while they were in the water, communicating with each other through specific signals, and moving together in sync. A small amount of misalignment between any one of the divers would have created problems for the entire formation.

Fourteen total divers created the vertical human stack, each diver had a specific job. The entire stack had to stay together while under pressure, therefore, total trust and coordination were necessary.

Official Recognition and Support 

The event was recognized by the Guinness Book of World Records, who verified that this was the tallest underwater human stack in history. The event was organized with the help of the Andaman and Nicobar Administration to help promote those islands as a world-class destination for scuba divers and adventure sports.

Official representatives indicated that they establish standards for attempts to create records for the purpose of creating solutions to promote and protect the area's rich marine life and world-class recreational diving conditions.