LANSING, Michigan: After losing two batteries for a critical GPS device and ending up badly off course, a man was forced to give up an epic 80-mile swim across Lake Michigan on the third day.
Jim Dreyer, 60, was pulled from the water last week after he had completed 60 miles. He said he had been swimming from Michigan to Wisconsin for hours without a GPS, relying only on a wrist compass and his reading of the sk