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In this handout photo provided by the Florida Keys News Bureau, Endurance swimmer Diana Nyad swims in the Florida Straits between Cuba and the Florida Keys on August 19, 2012 at Sea, in the Florida, Straits. Nyad, 63, is trying to be the first swimmer to cross the Florida Straits without a shark cage.  (Photo by Christi Barli/Florida Keys News Bureau via Getty Images)

Cuba-to-Fla. Swimmer Plows On After Storm, Jellyfish Stings

Long-distance swimmer Diana Nyad continues to plow through through stormy seas Monday, trying one more time to complete the marathon journey from Cuba to Florida. She wants to arrive in the Florida Keys before her 63rd birthday on Wednesday.

CBS4–2012/08/20

(Source: CBS) Penny Palfry heads out from Havana

Swimmer From Cuba Halfway To Florida

Endurance swimmer Penny Palfrey muscled past the halfway mark Saturday as she pushed through the Florida Straits, enduring jellyfish stings but otherwise encountering perfect conditions in her attempt to become the first woman to swim unassisted more than 100 miles from Cuba to the Florida Keys.

CBS4–2012/06/30

(CBS4) Rip current warning flags.

Search Mounted For Rip Current Victim

The Coast Guard is searching by sea and air for a person who went swimming in the Atlantic off the coast near Ft. Pierce Sunday and disappeared.

2011/12/25

(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

(Source: CBS) Rescuers at Pompano Beach worked for hours to rescue a man trapped for hours by collapsing sand.

Austrian Swimmer Trapped As Sand Collapses At Pompano Beach

A member of the Austrian National Swim Team was seriously injured Sunday night during a trip to the beach on the team’s day off. Police say he dug a deep hole in the sand, jumped in, and to the horror of those around him, the hole collapsed.

CBS4–2011/05/08

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