The Red Bulletin May 2020 (UK)

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Ben Lecomte “My generation is responsible for this disaster, so I owe it to myself to do something for those who come after” F or eight hours a day, across 338 nautical miles (626km), Ben Lecomte is swimming through rubbish. And unlike the marine life around him, this was his choice. Lecomte is the first person to brave the swirling vortex of subaqueous debris that has become known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch – an area more than six times the size of the UK, located between California and Hawaii – in an effort to conduct vital research and to raise awareness. Lecomte isn’t a pro swimmer or a scientist; he’s a French architect and now naturalised US citizen who has been living in Austin, Texas, since 1993. The 52-year-old is married, with two children at home. Yet here he is, amid an unprecedented environmental catastrophe. “My generation is responsible for this disaster,” he says, simply, “so I owe it to myself to do something for those who come after.” Lecomte nailed the first serious test of his swimming ability back in 1998 when he became the first man to swim the Atlantic without a kick board, covering the 5,980km from Cape Cod in the US to Quiberon, France, in 73 days. Then, in 2018, he embarked on The Longest Swim, an attempt to repeat this performance in the Pacific, but this time across 9,100km. Lecomte swam 2,700km before typhoon winds damaged his assistance boat and he had to give up. But witnessing the huge rise in visible plastic waste helped 42 THE RED BULLETIN
Dangerous liaisons: organisms such as algae and shellfish attach themselves to the floating detritus, and crabs and fish follow below, creating a new ecosystem
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Page 12 and 13: JASPER, CANADA Nature of the beast
Page 14 and 15: CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA Sea change
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Page 18 and 19: Breath of fresh air: weighing only
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Page 40 and 41: Surviving the VORTEX BEN LECOMTE is
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