Endurance swimmer Diana Nyad has plunged into the Straits of Florida for the start of what she hopes will be a world record 103-mile swim from Cuba to Florida.7:00AM BST 08 Aug 2011. She will be accompanied on the 60-hour journey by a 45-member support team.`I'm standing here in the prime of my life,'' she said before jumping into the sea. ``Now I look out at a dead, flat calm, so I think this is my day.''">Endurance swimmer Diana Nyad has plunged into the Straits of Florida for the start of what she hopes will be a world record 103-mile swim from Cuba to Florida.7:00AM BST 08 Aug 2011. She will be accompanied on the 60-hour journey by a 45-member support team.`I'm standing here in the prime of my life,'' she said before jumping into the sea. ``Now I look out at a dead, flat calm, so I think this is my day.''">

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Endurance swimmer Diana Nyad tackles perilous Straits of Florida at 61

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  • 08 / 08 / 2011

Endurance swimmer Diana Nyad has plunged into the Straits of Florida for the start of what she hopes will be a world record 103-mile swim from Cuba to Florida.7:00AM BST 08 Aug 2011. She will be accompanied on the 60-hour journey by a 45-member support team.

`I'm standing here in the prime of my life,'' she said before jumping into the sea. ``Now I look out at a dead, flat calm, so I think this is my day.''

Nyad had waited until the daytime winds had died so she could start her quest in quiet seas.

Weather forecasters had predicted doldrum-like conditions until Thursday in the straits that separate the United States and Cuba, giving her a good window for the gruelling voyage.

Nyad tried the crossing from Cuba in 1978 when she was 28, but failed in the face of winds and heavy waves.

Source: www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/8688000/Endurance-sw...

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