TOKYO (Reuters) - Long distance swimmer Ben Lecomte set off from Japan’s east coast on Tuesday in his bid to become the first person to swim across the Pacific Ocean.
Lecomte's two children Max and Anna swam out with him for a few hundred metres before leaving the 50-year-old Frenchman to continue the task of crossing the world’s largest expanse of water.
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