The swim at a lake near Pello, Finland was filmed for a Dutch television program, and a test run the previous day almost ended in disaster when his corneas started to freeze and he was swimming blind. On 16 March 2000, Hof set the Guinness World Record for farthest swim under ice, with a distance of 57.5 metres (188.6 feet). Hof at, a 2015 event, at TheaterAmsterdam In 2008 he was urgently hospitalized because he sat on a public fountain in Amsterdam and ruptured his rectum when doing so, resulting in an injury that almost caused his death. Hof has said that his sadness over the loss of his first wife was formative in leading him to develop techniques to face low temperature environments. When he was 17 he felt a sudden urge to jump into the freezing cold water of the Beatrixpark canal.
Hof has six children, four of them with his first wife Marivelle-Maria (also called "Olaya"), who died by suicide in 1995 a son, born in 2003 to his girlfriend and a son born in 2017 to his last girlfriend. Hof was born in Sittard, Limburg, Netherlands, as one of nine children, in order of birth: Rob (1954), John (1955), Marianne (1957), Wim and Andre (1959-identical twins), Ruud (1961), Ed (1962), Marcel (1964) and Jacqueline (1967).
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