An Indiana-based triathlete says his latest attempt to swim across Lake Michigan – his third unsuccessful try since June 2023 – was foiled by a dead battery in his GPS device leading him to turn north when he was supposed to be swimming west from Michigan to Wisconsin, the AP reports.
Jim Dreyer, 60, was informed that he had made the wrong turn by the crew of a support boat after he had been swimming in the wrong direction all day Thursday. Why the fuck the support boat crew had not informed him earlier is unclear. “I should have been in the home stretch, well into Wisconsin waters with about 23 miles (37 kilometers) to go. Instead, I had 47 miles (75 kilometers) to go, and the weather window would soon close,” Dreyer wrote in an after-action report.