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Swimming is not common in Antarctica, because the only liquid water is the Southern Ocean, which is too cold for the sport. The liquid water temperatures can fall to about 27 degrees F, because of all the minerals in the sea water.

Professional divers, however, are known to dive in Antarctic waters in search of scientific data contained in the benthos and the local sea life, and part of their extreme cold water diving gear may be socks.

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