Comment on Diana Nyad Abandons Cuba to Florida Swim by Makster

Unfortunately, Diana Nyad had to abandon her dream of swimming the full 103 miles from Cuba to Florida. She made it to the halfway point, but nausea, asthma and shoulder pain forced her to give up the attempt. According to CNN:

The 61-year-old arrived in Key West aboard a boat, hours after abandoning a 103-mile swim from Cuba to Florida at about the halfway point.

She had attempted to become the first person to swim between Cuba and Florida without a shark cage, but ocean swells, shoulder pain and asthma forced her to give up the swim.

Nyad was vomiting when she was brought aboard a boat at 12:45 a.m. Tuesday — 29 hours after she jumped into the water Sunday.

“I would be lying to say I’m not deeply, deeply disappointed,” she told CNN. “This was a big dream, not just of the last two years but some 30 years ago when I tried it.”

“The swim was in me,” she said, but the conditions were not on her side.

She’s obviously disappointed, but – from where I sit – swimming for 29 hours straight is still a pretty damned impressive feat. Congrats are still in order for her effort, which took tremendous dedication and courage.

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