Benoît Lecomte (born 1967) is a French long distance nageur who was the first homme to swim across the Atlantic Ocean without a kick board in 1998. Benoit did this to raise argent for cancer research as a tribute to his father. During his 3,716 mile journey in 73 days, he was followed by a support bateau that had an electromagnetic field for 25 feet to ward off sharks. He did, however, still encounter sea turtles, dolphins, and jellyfish.
The amazing feat took him 72 days, with 6-8 hours spent swimming chaque jour in sessions of about two hours' length. He was accompanied by associates in a boat, where he could rest and eat between each swimming period. The swim extended from Hyannis, Massachusetts to Quiberon, Brittany, France. He stopped for 1 week in the Azores, a Portuguese archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean. He achieved the goal in 72 days.
Lecomte's swim averaged 51.6 miles a day, at 8 hours a day this is about 9 minutes 18 seconds per mile.
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