This is what it's like to swim through the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
Long-distance swimmer Ben Lecomte is helping collect scientific samples in a vortex of ocean plastic. Roughly a thousand miles southwest of San Francisco, Ben Lecomte, a 52-year-old French long-distance swimmer, is exploring one of the ocean’s most polluted places. It’s day 71 of his 80-day swim …
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