Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. "I was a child when [my uncle] Ben [Lecomte] walked on the shores of France in Quiberon after he first crossed the Atlantic Ocean in 1998," recalled Paul Lecomte, the Project Manager for Lecomte's The Longest Swim across the Pacific Ocean. Later this year, Paul will head a 9-person escort crew of The
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. In the second half of Penny Palfrey's 109 km (68-mile) swim from Little Cayman to Grand Cayman that took 40 hours 41 minutes in 2011, a helicopter delivered a tub of chocolate ice cream to her escort boat, the Carib Princess. The cold chocolate ice cream was a welcomed relief in the warm tropical water that
Team Kizuna, a Japanese relay team with 11 members swam across the Tsugaru Channel from Honshu to Hokkaido in 6 hours 40 minutes this past week. Team Kizuna used 3 escort boats to get its 11 swimmers in and out as each swimmer swam for their short stints before exchanging to the next swimmer. Each swimmer swam for 2-minutes shifts, long enough to sprint
