Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. It is unprecedented for the endurance athlete community and general public to witness exactly what happens during an ultra-marathon swim. While news coverage, photos and bits and pieces of video of ultra-marathon swimmers have been shown over the past century, Jamie Patrick and Ridgeline Entertainment will
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Stroke by stroke, mile by mile, hour by hour, day by day, month by month. That is what is takes in training and preparation for a successful Great Lake Swim. Off camera and behind the scenes, Jamie Patrick's 71-mile (114 km) solo traverse along the shorelines of Lake Michigan takes a whole lot of time,
Jamie Patrick is estimating his 90-mile (144.8 km) solo crossing of Lake Michigan from Milwaukee, Wisconsin to Chicago, Illinois will take about 55 hours. And his non-wetsuit swim, called The Great Lake Swim, will be a media broadcast like no other, an unprecedented feat in itself. Patrick's marathon swim will be unique: * the swim will be broadcast live
Doug Stanley and his team at Ridgeline Entertainment are the people who are enabling Ben Lecomte to realize his dream to not only swim across the Pacific Ocean, but also to bring the day-to-day drama to the world in a unique technological package. Out in the middle of the Earth’s largest body of water, Stanley will create, transmit and deliver intensely
Ridgeline Entertainment, producers of The Longest Swim by Ben Lecomte from Japan to California will test its development of SmackDab today at 11 am Los Angeles time. SmackDab is the new social viewing platform for Facebook which Lecomte and Ridgeline Entertainment will use to interact with their online followers around the globe while they are swimming
