The Vortex Swim
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Ben Lecomte started The Vortex Swim in June 2019 through the Great Pacific Garbage Patch in the Pacific Ocean
The Vortex Swim is a 300 nautical mile solo stage swim by Benoît Lecomte through the highest concentration of human-made discarded plastic in the world, located in the Pacific Ocean through the Great Pacific Garbage Patch that started on 17 June 2019.
Benoît Lecomte
Benoît Lecomte is an ultra-marathon swimmer and transoceanic stage swimmer originally from France and currently from Austin, Texas, U.S.A.
- He completed a cross-Atlantic Ocean swim in 1998.
- He attempted a transpacific solo stage swim from Choshi, Japan on 5 June 2018 (originally scheduled for May 2012) to San Francisco, California across the Pacific Ocean called The Swim (previously called The Longest Swim and the Cross-Pacific Swim for Cancer 2012) after 160 days and 1,524 nautical miles of swimming (2,822 km). The Swim was estimated to take approximately 6-8 months to cross over 5,419 miles (8,621 km) across the world's largest body of water.
- He was named one of the World's 50 Most Adventurous Open Water Men in 2019 by the World Open Water Swimming Association.
- He started The Vortex Swim in July 2019.
