Tag: Diana Nyad
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A pod of dolphins visit Diana Nyad
Still swimming from Cuba to the US, now less than 60 miles from Key West, Diana Nyad had some dolphins visiting.
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Diana Nyad and team hit by a squall, still soldiering on
Off Nyad’s website: Angie Sollinger with the Media Ops team reported that just after 8pm EDT “all hell broke loose here.” Out of nowhere, a squall “blew up very quick” and hit the flotilla with winds at one point reaching 14 knots, pushing Diana east. … At this time, 1:00am EDT, we believe that the…
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The first 24 hours of Diana Nyad’s swim from Cuba to Florida
Official observer Steve Munatones shares his observations of Diana Nyad And here is Nyad singing and cheering up the crew
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Diana Nyad attempts Cuba to US swim for the 4th time
62-year-old Diana Nyad jumped in the waters near Havana on Saturday in her fourth bid to make the record-making crossing, to swim from Cuba to the USA without a shark cage. She has already been stung by jellyfish a couple of times, but is still swimming according to her Twitter stream. Read for instance USA…
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Jerry Sandusky not a unique case
Read this by Diana Nyad on the Huffington Post “We act as if this is a unique situation. We have blared the Sandusky crimes and trial details across our front pages as if he’s a Jack the Ripper crime star of our times. Yes, he’s that big a criminal. Yes, justice has been served. Yes,…
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Diana Nyad goes for her Xtreme Dream again
It’s official, Diana Nyad will try again this summer to swim from Cuba to Florida.
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Diana Nyad presenting her 2012 Xtreme Dream Swim Jellyfish Armor
“It’s the jellyfish, that is what it is all about” :-)
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Diana Nyad at TEDMED 2011
At 62, record-smashing endurance swimmer Diana Nyad set out to swim from Cuba to Florida, she tells here dramatic story here, including the real reason she set herself such a tremendous task. There is a Q&A follow up too
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Diana Nyad’s Penn State Response
Jeez, those stats are scary: “Don’t we realize that this is a full-blown epidemic in our country. They say that 1 in 4 girls, 1 in 6 boys do not reach the birthday age of 18 in our country without being sexually molested by somebody they know”. Read also diananyad.com.