61 Year-Old Swimmer Dianna Nyad attempts to swim from Havana, Cuba to Florida!

61 Year-Old Swimmer Dianna Nyad trains to swim from Havana, Cuba to Florida!

Long-distance ocean swimming is an intense exercise in endurance, concentration and, in many ways, becoming one with your environment. The distances that Diana covers and the hours that she spends continuously swimming are incredible.  In 1979, Her world record is 102.5 miles, from Bimini Island to Florida, over two days. Over 102 miles and two days non-stop. Keyword: NON-STOP! Now Swimmer Dianna Nyad is on a quest to break another record. Swimming from Havana Cuba all the way to Florida!  
Diana prefers to swim without the aid of a shark cage - there are those swimmers who feel the use of a shark cage makes the swim a bit less challenging - not because of the concern for sharks but because the cage acts like a box that tows the swimmer along, keeping him or her on the right path and smoothing out ocean swells. Diana deals with the possibility of shark encounters by using several electronic Shark Shields attached to a following kayak. Nourishment is provided throughout the swim in the form of fluids and high protein snacks that are totally burned up to satisfy her caloric needs and provide little waste. Diana experiences all the various levels of extreme physical and mental endurance that you can imagine, getting the mind to focus so that the adrenaline and endorphins keep pumping before the body systems eventually say they have had enough. Diana completed her swim from Bimini to Florida in 1979 and then took a break from swimming - for 31 years. A year ago, at age 60, she began training to break her own record by trying for a distance that rough seas had kept her from accomplishing in 1978: Havana, Cuba to Florida; 103 miles and 60 hours. Who Swam the world?? Dianna!