Marathon swimmer says he quit Lake Michigan swim after going in wrong direction with dead GPS
Associated Press
A man attempting an epic 80-mile swim across Lake Michigan said he gave up on the third day after losing two batteries for a critical GPS device and ending up badly off course. Sixty-year-old Jim Dreyer was pulled from the water last Thursday on the third day of his swim to Wisconsin from Michigan. Dreyer says he probably swam 60 miles by that point. He says he decided to stop because of bad weather ahead. He also says his “brain was mush.” Dreyer crossed Lake Michigan in 1998. But three attempts to do it again since last summer have been unsuccessful.
