Most team outings are well known: karting, laser tag or bowling. But the head of the radiotherapy department at the LUMC, Coen Rasch, came up with a completely different idea when he opened the Guinness Book of World Records.
In it he saw the world record ‘longest continuous line of sand castles’. The record was set at 1924 for castles made of buckets. “Then I thought, that’s an achievable record.”
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He decided to build 3500 of them. This number represents the number of patients irradiated by the department in 2021. “Despite corona, we have irradiated as many patients as in other years. That is quite an achievement since it was a busy period with, among other things, sick staff,” says Rasch.
One hundred men in ten teams gathered on the beach near Noordwijk on Friday afternoon. Each team was tasked with building 350 castles. The participants were very enthusiastic. “I thought, that will never work,” says Bonni Bakri, one of the participants.
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The record was broken anyway. After an hour and three quarters of an hour there were enough sandcastles. The teams were not tired. “It was fine to do.”
Rasch even counted 3637 sand castles in total. A new world record. The counting was filmed by an independent party, and the Guinness Book of World Record determines whether the attempt is approved based on the video.