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28 March 2024

Swimmer, 61, forced to end Cuba-Florida swim

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By AFP


Sixty-one-year-old American swimmer Diana Nyad was forced to end her bid to become the first person to swim from Cuba to Florida without a shark cage in mid-trip on Tuesday, CNN reported.    

CNN, which had a producer on one of the boats accompanying Nyad, said she was vomiting when she was brought aboard a boat at 12:45 a.m. (0445 GMT).

 She was about 29 hours into a swim that had been expected to last about 60 hours, with Key West in the Florida Keys her intended destination.    

"I am not sad. It was absolutely the right call," CNN quoted her as saying.    
Nyad was shielded by an electrical field to ward off sharks in her bid to set a world record by completing the 103-mile (166 km) crossing from Cuba without a shark cage.