As Morski writes on the 25th of June, 2019, let’s look at a touching and very original way to mark Croatian statehood day (25th of June) in Gradac near Makarska, Dalmatia. The members of the TIMUN Eco-diving club decided to place the largest flag ever below the surface of the sea and thus overthrow the previous Guinness record, and it seems that they managed to do it!
In the early afternoon, twenty members of the Timun eco-diving club and fifteen other people from logistics from the beach in Gradac began with this venture and finally managed to successfully place a 22×10 metre flag on the seabed. With that move, the team not only engaged in a moving celebration of Croatia’s Statehood Day, but officially managed to overthrow the Guinness record.
The record was previously held by New Zealanders who placed a flag of 160 square metres on the seabed, and the surface of the new Croatian flag below the sea covers 220 square metres.
”The idea was born last winter. The members of our club and our brother club from Mostar often get together and we decided to do something original. We’ve been researching on the internet what exactly we could do to break a record and then we found this. We’ve successfully placed the Croatian flag on the seabed today, covering an area of 220 square metre, we have all taken photos and broken an official record,” stated Jakov Korljan, the president of the aforementioned society, in conversation with Dalmacija Danas.
“When browing online I’d noticed the Saudi Arabian flag a couple of years ago stretched along their coast,” he said, “and then I came to the idea to do this in our blue Adriatic, but bigger and better,” said the organiser Davorin Kozomar.
The bura made things a bit more difficult to begin with and get going, but sixteen divers were able to lower the huge Croatian flag to the bottom.
In order for the record to be recognised, the whole event needs to be recorded in continuity. Guinness’ extremely strict rules are also asking for three witnesses to oversee the whole procedure.
The material is now being sent off for assessment, and Matko Burić of the Gradac Municipality believes that the coastal town will soon be the owner of a Guinness World Record, HRT writes.
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