Round Rock Resident Will Attempt To Swim Across the Pacific

Ben Lecomte lives in Round Rock but later this month you can find him attempting to swim across the Pacific ocean, from Tokyo to San Francisco.

He swam across the Atlantic ocean in 1998. “Never again” were my first words when I got out of the water after completing my swim across the Atlantic... “But here I am getting ready for the next swim. Real real passion never goes away,” Lecomte said on his fundraising website.

Ben and his team will be collecting samples on their journey. Ben will swim with Water Defense Environmental Indicator technology attached to his body.

“What better way for Water Defense to demonstrate how we are there for the people and the fishes?” said actor and Water Defense founder Mark Ruffalo. “We will be joining Ben on his Journey across the Pacific Ocean testing the water with our very own WaterBug cumulative water testing technology trailing behind on his long swim across the world. It’s an honor for Water Defense to join Ben on this extraordinary historical super human journey.”

Follow Ben’s journey here.