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Benoit Lecomte was the first man to swim across the Atlantic Ocean. The feat, performed in 1998, took him 72 days, with 6-8 hours spent swimming each day. Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1998 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ...
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Swimming Around The World. http://www.didyouknow.cd/aroundtheworld/swimming.htm. Retrieved 1 Aug 2004.
Lecomte, 31, is swimming to raise awareness and money for cancer research in memory of his father, Pierre, who died of colon cancer in 1991.
Lecomte was surely oblivious to this activity with his head submerged in the waves, his neon-green snorkel the only evidence of his presence.
Lecomte, a 1995 graduate of the University of Texas at San Antonio, is swimming in memory of his father, Pierre, who succumbed to colon cancer in 1991.
BenoitLecomte is quite a guy and you probably have never even heard his name.
BenoitLecomte hoped to reach the shores of Brest, France, by mid-October, but finished well ahead of time (and he says the shark had nothing to do with it).
Lecomte, born in the Paris suburb of Enghien-les-Bains, dedicated the swim to the memory of his father Pierre, who died of colon cancer seven years ago.
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