Ben Lecomte’s Swim Ends With 1,000 New Scientific Samples… What’s Next?
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Broken sails don’t mean broken spirits for Ben Lecomte and his team. After six grueling months on the water, ‘Seeker’ has landed in Hawaii with a treasure trove of rare data and a commitment to a cleaner future.
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“My legs are a little shaky”, he was quoted as saying by CNN affiliate KHON2. ‘I’m not used to having something stable, but it feels good. I grabbed some sand with my hand to feel the earth…..’ Today, The Swim as a world record attempt has stopped but The Swim as a platform keeps on living because it has always been the most important goal of the expedition.'”
He swam from Japan to Hawaii and at times saw a piece of plastic in the ocean every three minutes
cnn.com/2018/12/11/us/pacific-swim-ben-lecomte-hawaii/index.html
“‘Sometimes we’re swimming with whales around and then boom, 10 minutes later, a big floating plastic, a blob. A lot of it is something that we all use at home,’ he told KHON. ‘To see that with sea life, that was very disturbing.'”
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