French open water swimmer Ben Lecomte spent his summer swimming through the patch to raise awareness and conduct research on ocean pollution. If you pull up Google Maps, then point and click your way ...
Long-distance swimmer Ben Lecomte is helping collect scientific samples in a vortex of ocean plastic. Long-distance swimmer Ben Lecomte holds a trash can found in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a ...
HYANNIS -- The seas were rough. The media frenzy around him was relentless. Still, Benoit "Ben" Lecomte was unexpectedly calm for someone about to embark on a 3,400-mile swim to France. Even after ...
On June 5, Ben Lecomte will dive into the water off the coast of Choshi, Japan and begin a 5,500 mile-long swim across the Pacific Ocean. If all goes according to plan, the 51-year-old Frenchman will ...
Ben Lecomte, the first person to swim across the Atlantic Ocean back in 1998, is now attempting to be the first swimmer to traverse the Pacific Ocean. The record-setter is taking on the challenge not ...