Man begins six-month swim through 'Great Pacific garbage patch' Ben Lecomte plans to swim from Japan to US to raise awareness of plastic pollution.
Politics www.npr.org To raise awareness for climate change, 50-year-old makes bid to swim across Pacific Ben Lecomte is the first person to try to swim across the Pacific Ocean. NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks to him from Choshi, Japan, before he departs to attempt the 5,500-mile journey.
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