French couple plan three-month relay swim across the Atlantic

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 off from the island of Cape Verde, off the African coast, on Nov 1 for a 3,800-kilometre (2,360-mile) swim to the French Caribbean island 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 part of the distance covered. "This is ultra-swimming, and that is what...