Nearly 2,000 set Guinness floating record in Argentina

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Photo released by Telam on January 29, 2017 showing some 2.000 people floating at Epecuen lake in Carhue, Argentina, during an attemp to break the Guinness World Record and surpass the mark achieved by the Taiwanese, who in 2014 reached the number of 643 people floating at the same time. / AFP PHOTO / TELAM / Paula RIBAS / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO / TELAM / Paula RIBAS /HO " - NO MARKETING - NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS
Photo released by Telam on January 29, 2017 showing some 2.000 people floating at Epecuen lake in Carhue, Argentina, during an attemp to break the Guinness World Record and surpass the mark achieved by the Taiwanese, who in 2014 reached the number of 643 people floating at the same time. / AFP PHOTO / 

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AFP) — Nearly 2,000 people joined hands in a salty lake in Argentina on Monday, setting a new Guinness world record for the most people floating while connected.

Experts from the Guinness Book of Records certified that 1,941 people free-floated in a line simultaneously for 30 seconds in Lake Epecuen, southeast of Buenos Aires, according to a video published by local authorities.

The previous record was set in 2014 in Sun Moon Lake in Taiwan when 650 people linked up using flotation aids.

In Lake Epecuen, participants broke the record completely unaided since the water’s high saltiness made floats unnecessary, organizers said.

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