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(Source: ADALBERTO ROQUE/AFP/Getty Images)  US swimmer Diana Nyad swims offshore from the Ernest Hemingway Nautical Club in Havana on September 23, 2011.

Diana Nyad Continues Cuba To Florida Swim

Marathon swimmer Diana Nyad braved schools of jellyfish Saturday while testing the limits of human endurance on a quest to break her own 3-decade-old distance record, in her third attempt at swimming from Havana to Florida, with a possible landing in the middle Keys.

CBS4–2011/09/24

Diana Nyad prepares to jump into the water at Ernest Hemingway Nautical Club, in Havana on August 7, 2011, to swim from Havana to Florida in a three-day non-stop journey.  (ADALBERTO ROQUE/AFP/Getty Images)

Diana Nyad Attempting 3rd Cuba To Keys Swim

Endurance athlete Diana Nyad is about to go back in the water for her third attempt to swim from Cuba to Florida and set a world record at the age of 62.

CBS4–2011/09/23

Diana Nyad prepares to jump into the water at Ernest Hemingway Nautical Club, in Havana on August 7, 2011, to swim from Havana to Florida in a three-day non-stop journey.  (ADALBERTO ROQUE/AFP/Getty Images)

Nyad May Attempt Another Cuba To Keys Swim

After failing to complete her goal of swimming from Cuba to Key West last month, marathon swimmer may be ready to give it another shot.

CBS4–2011/09/22

(Source: Rob O’Neal/Florida Keys News Bureau) Diana Nyad tries to hold back tears upon her return to Key West following a failed attempt to swim from Cuba to the Florida Keys

Nyad Ends Cuba-Keys Swim

Endurance swimmer Diana Nyad ended her second bid to swim from Cuba to the Florida Keys at about the halfway point early Tuesday then gave up on any more attempts to cross the Florida Straits.

CBS4–2011/08/09

Swimmer Diana Nyad jumps into the water at Ernest Hemingway Nautical Club, in Havana on August 7, 2011, to swim from Havana to Florida in a three-day non-stop journey. (Photo credit: ADALBERTO ROQUE/AFP/Getty Images)

Diana Nyad Continues On Perilous Cuba-Florida Swim

Sixty-one-year-old endurance swimmer Diana Nyad is in the midst of trying to accomplish what she failed to do at age 28 — swim more than 100 miles from Havana to Key West, and she’s doing it without the aid of a shark cage. Nyad started the 60-hour swim Sunday, just before sunset.

CBS4–2011/08/08

( ADALBERTO ROQUE/AFP/Getty Images)

Nyad To Attempt Record Setting Cuba To Keys Swim

American endurance swimmer Diana Nyad is hoping to make history on Sunday when she attempts to swim from Cuba to the Florida Keys.

CBS4–2011/08/07

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