Much of the nation is in the grips of a cold spell the likes of which make us long for summer.

Here's someone, though, who won't let Old Man Winter get him down. In this video, from 2010, a college student decides to do something truly outrageous: swim under the ice of a frozen pond.

He's a daredevil, for sure, but we'd really love to see the even crazier video where he microwaves himself to get warm again.

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