This time, neither storm,
jellyfish, nausea nor utter fatigue could keep 64-year-old endurance
swimmer Diana Nyad from achieving her lifelong ambition of conquering
the Straits of Florida.
Nyad on Monday became the
first person to swim from Cuba to Florida without a shark cage, willing
her way to a Key West beach just before 2 p.m. ET., nearly 53 hours
after jumping into the ocean in Havana for her fifth try in 35 years.