I did a search and did not see this being talked about here so I thought I would bring it up.
It seems that in 1998, a one Benoit Lecomte swam across the Atlantic Ocean in 72 days. The story can be found here. I for one find this to be a bit hard to swallow. According to him this is an average of 51 nautical miles every day for 72 days. And for his time of swimming 8 hours a day a speed of just over 6 nautical miles per hour. Granted he did use wetsuits and fins, but that's still blazing fast.
I remember hearing about this a couple of years ago and since then nothing new has come up. There don't seem to be any pictures, and as amazing as it seems only a few websites. Does anyone know if he actually did this or not? Or if he was BSing a lot of people. One would think that for all the press other people get for doing things, this would be one of them. No stories come up on CNN. Is anyone else's BS meter showing for this feat?
