{"id":10312,"date":"2011-07-19T08:40:35","date_gmt":"2011-07-19T12:40:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=10312"},"modified":"2011-07-20T08:56:01","modified_gmt":"2011-07-20T12:56:01","slug":"nyad-trains-for-cuba-to-key-west-swim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2011\/07\/nyad-trains-for-cuba-to-key-west-swim","title":{"rendered":"Nyad Trains For Cuba To Key West Swim"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Weather conditions may be especially challenging. In 1978, Ms. Nyad attempted a similar trip, but had to quit because of bad weather and strong ocean currents. Credit: Nicole Bengiveno\/The New York Times<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

More than 30 years after her last big swim, Diana Nyad is back in the water. Nyad, a former commentator for NPR’s Morning Edition, became well-known in the 1970s for her swim around Manhattan Island and, a few years later, for swimming from the Bahamas to Florida.<\/p>\n

Now, at age 61, she’ll soon be attempting a 103-mile swim from Cuba to Key West. She has been training relentlessly \u2014 with 9-hour, 15-hour, even a 24-hour swim.<\/p>\n

On a recent day, she’s out for a short swim \u2014 just three hours \u2014 on the “Voyager” a 32-foot power catamaran. She and her team of trainers, boat pilots, meteorologists and shark divers are ready. They’re just waiting for the weather.<\/p>\n

As we pull out of the harbor at Key West, her navigator, David Marchant tells her there are several days of rough weather ahead.<\/p>\n

“It’s making me crazy,” Nyad says.<\/p>\n

She needs the water in the Florida straits to be as warm as possible \u2014 hopefully in the high 80s. Once she takes off from Cuba, she’ll swim for at least two-and-a-half days straight \u2014 an estimated 60 hours \u2014 without a wet suit. Hypothermia is a concern when just a few tenths of a degree can make a big difference.<\/p>\n

She also wants calm seas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

More than 30 years after her last big swim, Diana Nyad is back in the water. Nyad became well known for long distance open sea swims, such as from the Bahamas to Florida.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[70,131],"class_list":["post-10312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","tag-ocean","tag-sports-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10312\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}