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From: AltaSea at the Port of Los Angeles <AltaSeaNews@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: AltaSea: Beacon-Special Edition
Date: June 4, 2018 at 7:00:13 AM PDT
To: Paul Petrich <ppetrich39@xxxxxx>
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June 4, 2018
AltaSea, The Swim Launch Pledge Drive as Ben Lecomte Begins Pacific Crossing
The Swim, Ben Lecomte’s audacious project to swim from Tokyo to San Francisco
to raise awareness about Pacific Ocean pollution, has begun, and with it, a
joint program to raise money for education programs at AltaSea at the Port of
Los Angeles.
AltaSea hosted Lecomte’s crew and support ship, now rechristened as Seeker,
for several months this past winter, as they retrofitted the 62-foot sailboat
for an arduous six-month journey. The Swim, as the project is now known, will
be captured in a Discovery Channel documentary due next year, as well as
weekly video shorts and social-media posts by the online site Seeker and
production company Nomadica Films.
As part of the project, The Swim and AltaSea are also launching a pledge
campaign to raise money during the first 1,000 miles of the 5,000-mile
journey.
“We’re proud to have been early and strong supporters of The Swim as Ben and
his team readied themselves for this extraordinary journey,” said Jenny
Krusoe, AltaSea’s executive director. “What Ben and his team are doing is so
vital to raise awareness of the importance of our oceans, and the problems
our oceans face. We are so grateful that Ben and his team have chosen
AltaSea’s education programs as one of the projects that will benefit from
The Swim.”
The joint AltaSea-The Swim fundraiser is one of several planned pledge
campaigns, all generating money for ocean-related science and education
programs. Pledged donations will go to each partner organization after
Lecomte completes that leg of The Swim.
All AltaSea-related pledges will help finance construction of an outdoor Blue
Tech Ocean Exploration classroom on the AltaSea docks. Students will learn
about ocean exploration and research and get to operate underwater research
drones from onshore.
“I’m so grateful for AltaSea’s invaluable support during our preparations for
The Swim,” said Lecomte. “We share deep concerns about our oceans, and know
how vital healthy oceans are for our planet’s future. I hope that with The
Swim and the funds and awareness that we can raise together, we can inspire
and teach a new generation of people to protect our oceans for many years to
come.”
LeComte, an Austin-based architect who swam across the Atlantic Ocean two
decades ago, will be the test subject for a variety of research projects
during The Swim, for organizations such as NASA. The support crew also will
conduct hundreds of samples and tests of ocean conditions throughout The Swim
as part of other research projects. Hannah Altschwager, Coordinator on Land
will remain at the AltaSea site to monitor communications with The Swim crew.
“We’re so proud to have hosted Ben Lecomte’s support team as they prepared
for this important and challenging initiative,” said AltaSea CEO Tim McOsker.
“AltaSea and The Swim each are addressing, in different ways, the serious
problems affecting our oceans. Ben’s remarkable effort is inspiring young
people to think about the oceans and their own futures. And with funds we can
raise with Ben’s help, we’ll build a one- of-kind outdoor waterfront
classroom that will really get kids excited about science and the ocean.”
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