Underwater card game breaks records

A group of German scuba divers are claiming a new world record after playing the same card game underwater for 36 hours.

The 16 divers - who worked in shifts so they could change oxygen tanks - sat on the bottom of a pool in Geiselhoering, playing a traditional Bavarian card game called 'Sheep's head'.

Organiser Eric Schlegelmilch said: "We gave up counting who owed what after an hour. We didn't want anyone going belly up."

Now the group plan to contact Guinness World Records officials with a video record of their stunt.