The greatest distance by aquabike (jet ski) in 6 hours was 507.2 km (315.16 mi) by Francisco Javier Perez De La Hoz (Spain) in Zaragoza, Spain, on 23 April 2011. De La Hoz completed 127 laps of a circuit that ran between the Club Nautico de Zaragoza and the Pasarela Manterola de Zaragoza. Of the six hours, 5 hr 28 min 33 sec were spent riding the jet ski and the remainder was spent on resting/refueling.
Both Marcos Garcia de Paz and Santiago Villalba Arranz (Spain) travelled 21 m (68.89 ft) across rings hung 1 m (3.28 ft) apart while dangling from just two fingers of each hand on the set of El Show de los Récords, Madrid, Spain on 27 November 2001.
The world’s heaviest sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas) weighed 37 kg (81 lb 9 oz) on 8 March 2004 and was grown by Manuel Pérez Pérez (Spain) in Güime, Lanzarote, Spain.
The highest bunny hop on a bicycle is 1.42 m (4 ft 8 in) and was achieved by Benito Ros (Spain) at the 2009 “bike the rock” festival, Heubach, Germany, on 17 May 2009.
Curtis Rivers (UK) performed a bungee jump from a hot air balloon at 4,632 m (15,200 ft) over Puertollano, Spain, on 5 May 2002 – thus achieving the highest altitude bungee jump. He jumped using a 10 m (33 ft) cord, which stretched to 30 m (98 ft). After bouncing five times he freed himself from the cord and parachuted to the ground. At jump altitude the air was so thin that breathing equipment had to be used.
2.45 m (8 ft 0.45 in) Javier Sotomayor (Cuba) Salamanca, Spain 27 July 1993
The Swedish 1 metre Solar Telescope, on La Palma in the Canary Islands, uses a mirror in the path of the sunlight that minutely changes shape a thousand times per second to counter the effects of atmospheric turbulence. It can see details on the surface of the Sun as small as 70 km across (43 miles).
The highest tightrope crossed on a motorcycle is 130 m (426 ft 6.12 in) in height and 666.10 m (2185 ft 4.32 in) in length and was achieved by Mustafa Danger (Morocco) in Benidorm, Spain on 16 October 2010. Mustafa Danger traveled along a steel cable over a 1 km (3280 ft 9.96 in) in length from the Monte Tossal hill to the roof of the Gran Hotel Bali in Benidorm. A human counterweight was used during the attempt.
Jordi Pascuet and Marcel Justribo (both Spain) climbed a vertical wall onto a platform at a height of 3.22 m (10 ft 6.38 in) on the set of on the set of ‘Guinness World Records’, in Madrid, Spain, on 21 January 2009.
On 28 October 2010, at a location about 120 miles west of Madrid, Spain, a team of British space enthusiasts launched a paper aeroplane into space from a helium balloon at an altitude of 89,591 feet (27,307.39 m) or 17 miles above the earth’s surface. The plane, Vulture 1, had a wingspan of three feet, was made of paper straws, covered in paper and it took a year to construct. The balloon was equipped with two cameras and tracker devices, and both plane and balloon
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