Diana Nyad completed a historic 110-mile swim between Cuba and Florida without the protection of a shark cage Monday, a journey the 64-year-old has tried four times before. She completed the swim ...
Diana Nyad, the woman who swam from Cuba to Florida earlier this month, addressed skeptics who suggested that she cheated during her 51-hour journey across the water, The Associated Press reported.
Welcome a new ageless explorer to the fold. Diana Nyad, the 64-year-old woman who swam 110 miles from Cuba to Florida over the Labor Day weekend, offers a glorious example of late-life achievement.
KEY WEST, Florida — Diana Nyad has become the first person to swim from Cuba to Florida without the help of a shark cage. The 64-year-old Nyad stepped ashore in Key West on Monday just before 2 p.m.
(AP) – Diana Nyad is flanked by kayakers about two miles off Key West, Fla. Spectators wade into waist-high water, taking pictures and cheering her on. The 64-year-old endurance swimmer, looking dazed ...
KEY WEST, Fla. (AP) — Endurance swimmer Penny Palfrey crossed the halfway mark Saturday as she pushed through the Florida Straits, enduring jellyfish stings but otherwise encountering perfect ...
KEY WEST, Fla. (AP) -- The Australian who gave up her quest to swim from Cuba to Florida because of painful jellyfish stings said Thursday that she will not make another attempt. Chloe McCardel told ...
HAVANA - Swimmer Penny Palfrey powered through the Straits of Florida on Friday as she attempted a record 103-mile unassisted swim from Cuba to Florida that tests the limits of human endurance and the ...
Defeated before in bids to swim from Cuba to Florida, Diana Nyad would cry and rage through swollen lips and welts at the jellyfish tentacles that had repeatedly lashed her and derailed her plans to ...
Marathon swimmer Diana Nyad spent more than 40 hours in the shark-filled waters between Cuba and the Florida Keys, climbing into a boat only to be treated for searing welts left by Portuguese man o' ...
FORT LAUDERDALE, FLA. (WSVN) - After more than a decade since a world-renowned endurance swimmer made the long swim from Cuba to Key West, the epic milestone is being honored. City of Fort Lauderdale ...
HAVANA -- Wind conditions and "less than ideal currents" prompted marathon swimmer Diana Nyad to end her second bid to swim from Cuba to the Florida Keys about halfway through her journey early ...