James Wigginton joins yet another round-the-world adventure

James Wigginton of Van Buren Township has announced his newest adventure to earn money for Folds of Honor Foundation. He will be part of the team doing seven sky-diving scuba jumps in seven days on seven continents: Jan. 13-20, 2026.
Wigginton, a 72-year-old Vietnam-era Marine, already holds ten world records, including those for stair-climbing, skydiving, and submersible diving.
The jumps will start in the frigid waters at King George Island, Antarctica, then progress to Punta Arenas, Chile, and then up to Miami, FL. From there jump #4 will be in Casablanca, Morocco, and then #5 and #6 in Istanbul, Turkey, with one dive in the European waters and one in the Asian waters. They will finish off in Sydney, Australia for jump 7 on day 7.
This will be “Triple 7” for 7 continents in 7 days for 7 dives, which would be a world record.
Besides Wigginton on the team are Fox News host Johnny Joey Jones, a Marine; Fox Nation host Mike Sarraille, retired Navy SEAL; Mike “Boots” Barker, retired Navy SEAL; Jeff Samuel, retired Navy SEAL; Ramon “CZ” Colon-Lopez, retired pararescueman; Kirk Offen, former Navy sub (nuke); and Edward Andrews, formerly of the Australian Navy and owner of a Global Emergency Response Group.
The project will result in a Memorial Day 2026 Fox special following the team of eight U.S. and Australian veterans, led by combat-wounded Marine and Fox personality Jones, as they attempt to smash the world record for diving all 7 continents – currently 11 days, 19 hours, and 23 minutes – in under 7 days, using elite special operations-style planning and pure grit.
Each dive honors a fallen American hero, with every continent revealing the story of a team member and the comrade they lost.
The adventure is a fundraising mission for the Folds of Honor Foundation, a veteran nonprofit.
In 2013, Wigginton founded and has earned money for the Punya Thyroid Cancer Endowment Fund in honor of his late wife Nancy, who died in July 2013. The fund has helped increase thyroid cancer research and prolong patients’ quality of life.
His record-breaking was solely for the benefit of thyroid cancer until he began also working with Folds of Honor in 2022. Folds is a nonprofit organization helping the spouses and children of fallen or injured military veterans through educational scholarships.