ATLANTIC SWIM AMAZING : WORLD PRECIS

MARSEILLE : A French couple is training in the Mediterranean to prepare for what they hope will be a  record-breaking  three month relay swim across the Atlantic.

Matthieu Witvoet and Chloe Leger Witvoet plan to set from the island of Cape Verde, off the African coast, on Nov 1 for a 3,800-kilometre swim to the French Caribbean of Guadeloupe.

The couple will take turns swimming for six hours each every day and attempt to set records for the longest female ocean crossing as well as for the longest swimming relay '' with drifting, '' which means the boat they will sleep on will drift at night, which will account for the part of the distance covered.

'' This is ultra-swimming, and that is what we like to do,'' Leger said.

In 2019, the couple swam across the Strait of Gibraltar from Spain to Morocco; in 2021, they swam down the Seine River from Paris to Deauville, and in 2023, they swam from Marseille to Barcelona.

The World Students Society thanks Reuters.