An awesome video has emerged of a group of divers retrieving a sunken snowmobile from the bottom of the frozen Daugava river near Riga, Latvia.

The footage, shot by one of the divers last week, shows how lifeguards Edgar and Peter cut the ice open to dive and find the ski-doo at the bottom of the river.

Once the snowmobile was found, around six meters away from the hole they pierced in the ice, they attached barrels full of air to the vehicle to make it float back to the surface.

They then manage to lift the ski-doo back on the ice by using a lever system.

According to Edgar's girlfriend, a man was riding his ski-doo on the 2cm thick ice 700 metres from the coast when him and his vehicle went through the ice.

The man was rescued but the vehicle was only recovered a week later after the divers were directly called by the snowmobile driver.

"They only had coordinates taken by drone and guys hoped that reaching the spot where the snowmobile sank, they will see a trace, but as in the video can be seen - nothing suspicious to see, everything was white and plain" she wrote online.

"Hoping for the good fortune they started to hit the ice unknowingly if they are even close. Edgar dived in and already after 2 minutes found the snowmobile about 6 meters from ice-hole".

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January of 2016, 8 degrees below zero, the River Daugava in Latvia, near the hydroelectric power station, 700m from the coast, where ice thickness was 2cm, sunk snowmobile, lifeguards saved the man but snowmobile stayed under water..A week after the accident, the victim referred to my boyfriend Edgar, who is a professional diver and lifeguard and asked for help to bring out the sunken snowmobile. Edgar didn't refuse and, together with his colleague Peter went to help. They only had coordinates taken by drone and guys hoped that reaching the spot where the snowmobile sank, they will see a trace, but as in the video can be seen - nothing suspicious to see, everything was white and plain. Hoping for the good fortune they started to hit the ice unknowingly if they are even close. Edgar dived in and alredy after 2 minutes found the snowmobile about 6 metrs from ice-hole. On the day when they went on an expedition, ice thickness was from 2-7cm, searching for the exact location of snowmobile they broke into the ice more than 10 times each. Current work carried out by a team of experienced lifeguards with professional equipment