Paddling in plastic: meet the man swimming the Pacific garbage patch
by Esha Chhabra in Los Angeles from on (#4M9HA)
Ben Lecomte is making a trans-Pacific journey to better understand how plastics pollution is affecting our oceans
Ben Lecomte is spending his summer swimming in trash - literally. So far, he's found toothbrushes, laundry baskets, sandbox shovels and beer crates floating out in the open waters of the Pacific Ocean.
The 52-year-old Frenchman is journeying from Hawaii to San Francisco via the Great Pacific Garbage Patch to better understand how plastic is affecting our oceans. He will swim a total of 300 nautical miles, intermittently travelling by sailboat with a crew of 10 the rest of the way.
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