A team preparing for the Ice Swimming World Championship has been forced to cancel training, after their open water venue froze over. The New Zealand Ice Water Swimming Team has been using the lake at Castle Ashby in Northamptonshire to acclimatise for the upcoming championships in Italy,

Last month, a Westford, Massachusetts, resident named Dawn Felicani was walking near a partially frozen lake when she saw something shocking: a cat stuck in the middle of the water. Dawn Felicani The cat was 40 feet from shore and trapped on a tiny piece of ice.

WARNING DISTRESSING CONTENT Cold water swimmer Lu Man is believed to have taken on a challenge to dive under a frozen lake in Hunan Province, China, when he got into difficulties

Ice has now frozen around a stranded boat on the Lake Michigan shoreline in Milwaukee that's been there since Oct. 13.

This is the dramatic moment tourists stuck on a frozen lake were rescued in India after the ice cracked beneath them. Four holidaymakers plunged into the freezing cold water when the icy surface suddenly shattered at Sela Lake in Arunachal Pradesh on January 5.