Ratickle
08-21-2012, 08:09 AM
Sometimes you just have to wonder about why people try stuff. I know it wouldn't even cross my mind as a worthwhile endeavor.
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Cuba-to-Florida swimmer Diana Nyad plows on despite storm - News | FOX Sports on MSN (http://msn.foxsports.com/other/story/diana-nyad-cuba-to-florida-swims-on-despite-bad-storm-082012)
Diana Nyad slogged across the Straits of Florida for a third straight day Monday, hopeful she could fend off hypothermia, jellyfish and stormy weather as she inched toward a swimming record.
Nyad, who turns 63 on Wednesday, is making her third attempt since last summer to become the first person to swim from Cuba to Florida without a shark cage. She also made a failed try with a cage in 1978.
"She's doing well," a spokeswoman for the swimmer, Alex Crotin, said Monday afternoon.
Nyad had been expected to arrive somewhere in the Florida Keys early Tuesday, but her team tweeted Monday evening that she "lost six hours progress" in overnight storms Sunday. The team tweeted that a storm had blown Nyad off course and that "all hell broke loose" in the squall.
Monday offered far more ideal conditions, with blue skies and level seas and the Gulf Stream offering beneficial currents.
Nyad's team said the swimmer's spirits were lifted Monday afternoon by a surprise visit from a boatload of friends and family. And Monday evening, she found herself swimming among dolphins, a far happier scenario than the sharks that were feared.
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Cuba-to-Florida swimmer Diana Nyad plows on despite storm - News | FOX Sports on MSN (http://msn.foxsports.com/other/story/diana-nyad-cuba-to-florida-swims-on-despite-bad-storm-082012)
Diana Nyad slogged across the Straits of Florida for a third straight day Monday, hopeful she could fend off hypothermia, jellyfish and stormy weather as she inched toward a swimming record.
Nyad, who turns 63 on Wednesday, is making her third attempt since last summer to become the first person to swim from Cuba to Florida without a shark cage. She also made a failed try with a cage in 1978.
"She's doing well," a spokeswoman for the swimmer, Alex Crotin, said Monday afternoon.
Nyad had been expected to arrive somewhere in the Florida Keys early Tuesday, but her team tweeted Monday evening that she "lost six hours progress" in overnight storms Sunday. The team tweeted that a storm had blown Nyad off course and that "all hell broke loose" in the squall.
Monday offered far more ideal conditions, with blue skies and level seas and the Gulf Stream offering beneficial currents.
Nyad's team said the swimmer's spirits were lifted Monday afternoon by a surprise visit from a boatload of friends and family. And Monday evening, she found herself swimming among dolphins, a far happier scenario than the sharks that were feared.