she forgot her passport. she now has to swim back.
She did it! Good for her.
Penny Palfrey completed a 41 hour, 67 mile long open water swim from Little Cayman to Grand Cayman back in 2011. Penny was 48 years old at the time, not quite as old as ms. Nyad is now.
Palfrey also tried, and failed, the Florida Straits swim. It is quite an accomplishment for anyone to endure those conditions and succeed.
Aren’t most superheroes?
Go Diana! Good for her!
Way cool.
Freaking awesome! Amazing and inspirational!
OK, I laughed out loud.
Congratulations to Dyan Nyad!
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Hm, how does this rate on the whole no Americans allowed in Cuba thing … or did she leave from Gitmo?
Americans are allowed in Cuba, there are just limitations on the reasons for their travel and how (and how much) they spend money while there.
And since Gitmo is on the southern side of Cuba, swimming from there would have been a much, much longer and almost certainly impossible swim.
I have to admit I was wrong about Nyad. I figured that after three attempts she wasn’t going to make it. It is a pleasant surprise to be wrong about it.
She made it to shore. Under the wet-foot, dry-foot policy, the US has to give her asylum. 
Did she do a Rosie? She will answer tomorrow.
ABC (USA) had a report where people (other long distance swimmers) have brought up questions. She started at 1.6 mph then got to 3, 4 and 6 mph. Also she went 7 hours without stopping for food (i think also it said water).
Say it ain’t so Joe.
Currents?
Were there no third-party observers on the support boats? Most record-setting attempts require some oversight and sanctioning body control. I (want to) refuse to believe it was even possible for her to “catch a taxi” for such a long stretch and that she/they would be so stupid about it as to make it evident by the speeds.
It most likely ain’t. As in, some folks without full knowledge the situation are asking questions and the news media is giving it more attention than it deserves because it sells papers.
She admits that favorable gulf stream currents gave her a boost part of the way. I seriously doubt she would have succeeded fighting against those currents.
It’s still a noteworthy accomplishment.
personally should i ever contemplate such a swim, i would most certainly take the current(s) into account. do all i could to have them work in my favour. dolphins and whales do it, why not humans?
By design. All ocean swimming takes currents into account.
It’s worth pointing out that the people questioning Nyad are other open water, long distance swimmers. People with first hand open water experience and they know how to analyze Nyad’s GPS data. I’d expect more care would have been taken to ensure qualified, neutral observers were on hand to verify such a record breaking achievement.
Anyway, unless something new is revealed it appears that Nyad’s swim goes into the record books. I wouldn’t be surprised if no one else duplicates this swim.
Can anyone summarize why there are so many skeptics? Is it that they are convinced that the feat is simply beyond human endurance? I’m inclined to wonder how many long-distance swimmers are crying foul more out of jealousy than anything else.