Stage Swimming For Science And Sustainability Courtesy of AltaSea, Port of Los Angeles, San Pedro, California. AltaSea is an innovative ocean sustainability and marine science campus with myriad research and commercial activities located at the Port of Los Angeles, California. At an AltaSea Open House on September 16th, Captain Charles Moore (Founder and
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Ben Lecomte will receive the greatest amount of navigation data ever offered to an open water swimmer in history during The Longest Swim across the Pacific Ocean from Tokyo to San Francisco later this year. Using data obtained through satellites [see data example above with the gray land mass representing
>Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Ben Lecomte will be constantly monitored during The Longest Swim across the Pacific Ocean from Tokyo to San Francisco. He will attach an EKG waterproof holter monitor on his chest while wearing a RadBand radioactive cesium collector on his ankles as he swims across the largest body of water on Planet
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. Benoît Lecomte has admittedly had a challenging year, but he is gradually getting closer to his goal of starting his solo stage swim in Tokyo, Japan and heading off to San Francisco. "We didn't give up preparing for The Longest Swim. Our support boat is days away from San Diego [California] and after some
Courtesy of The Longest Swim by Ben Lecomte between Tokyo and San Francisco. Ben Lecomte will attempt a solo stage swim between Tokyo, Japan and San Francisco, California. He expects to start his transoceanic swim sometime in April 2017 and take at least 6 months of daily swims to work his way across the Pacific Ocean. The Longest Swim can be followed
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. On opposite sides of the Atlantic Ocean, stage swimmers British Ben Hooper and American Jennifer Figge are waiting anxiously for their transoceanic swims to start. Weather is causing delays on both sides of the Atlantic. Figge and her escort captain Tamas Hamor decided to take shelter Cape Canaveral on the
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Gino Gönenç Kalganoğlu grew up near the sea in the Turkish coastal town of Çanakkale. His multi-cultural and multi-lingual background has now led him to become an American citizen living in another coastal city of New Orleans. Along his way from Çanakkale to New Orleans, Kalganoğlu has produced and
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. "No one has ever tried to go so far, so slowly [across the Pacific Ocean]," said escort pilot James Scott about Benoît Lecomte's transoceanic swim known as The Longest Swim. "There are very few 'firsts' left in this world, and this six-month unsupported expedition is a rare chance to be a core part of one
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. When Benoît Lecomte swim 5,500 miles from Tokyo to San Francisco across the Pacific Ocean during The Longest Swim, he will use a variety of equipment [shown above]. His maritime science project will be anchored by a support team and researchers who will study the Plastiphere, as they try to answer the
