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I Dive 207 Feet Under Ice for Fun With No Oxygen Tank. The Key to Survival Isn’t What You Would Think (Exclusive)

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Professional diver Andrew Ryzebol tells PEOPLE exclusively of his risky underwater explorations 200 feet beneath uncharted ice with nothing but a mask and fins.

The Ontario native carves a hole into a thick sheet of ice that's formed atop Great Lake and dives down 200-plus feet into uncharted, freezing waters.

The athlete shares the key to surviving swims in such extreme wintery conditions without an oxygen tank.

Ontario Freedivers Andrew Ryzebol is a professional free diving coach in Ontario , Canada .

His personal record breath-holding duration was achieved while "not moving at all" and laying completely still.

The "biggest risk" of ice diving is not being able to spot the hole that gives access to the surface.

Ontario Freedivers Andrew Ryzebol has traveled the world for ice diving.

He says the sport is "almost exclusively" beneath the Great Lakes .

Despite the narrow window the ice-diving season in Canada lasts, he makes the most of it.

He also has intentions to explore more of the world, like Antarctica and Greenland .

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