The strange sport of Bog snorkeling

If you’ve never heard of Bog Snorkeling, we don’t blame you. We hadn’t either. Recently, the Northern Ireland Bog Snorkeling championship took place in Dungannon, Northern Ireland. Competitors must swim the full length of a waterfilled, 60-meter-long trench twice in the fastest time in order to win.

The trenches quickly fill with a nutrient rich, sloppy mess of mud. The sport was conceived in a bar (where else?) in Llanwrtyd Wells, Wales in 1976, by a man named Gordon Green. The first championships were held in the same town, nine years later.