A French swimmer has begun an attempt to swim across the Pacific Ocean, a journey that will take him through the Great Pacific Garbage Patch in a bid to raise awareness of plastic pollution. Benoit ...

Ben Lecomte, the 51-year-old Frenchman from Austin, Texas takes a deep breath before plunging into the Pacific Ocean for a swim. While this may seem normal, nothing about this swim is. Lecomte is not ...

TOKYO-- Professional distance swimmer Ben Lecomte, 51, set off from Japan to San Francisco on Tuesday in an attempt to become the first person to swim across the Pacific Ocean. Spokesman Alexandre ...

A French man’s attempt to swim across the Pacific Ocean may be over for now, but his campaign to warn the world about the dangers of plastic pollution in the ocean continues. Benoît “Ben” Lecomte ...

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - A French-American swimmer, hoping to be the first person to swim across the Pacific Ocean, arrived in Honolulu on Monday after bad weather forced his team to call off the ...

PAGO PAGO, American Samoa, September 24. FROM time to time, devoted readers of Swimming World Magazine and SwimmingWorldMagazine.com submit their adventures in the global swimming community. Recently, ...

Any day now, Ben Lecomte will plunge into the Pacific Ocean off a Tokyo beach toward San Francisco. He wants to become the first person to swim across the Pacific. He's already the first person to ...