64 years Nyad swim up to the beach just before 14:00 EDT, about 53 hours after she started her trip in Havana on Saturday , as she approached the audience waded into the water . high waist and around her and encouraged her photography .
" I have three messages. , One is that we should never , ever give up , you two are never too old to pursue your dreams . Third is that it seems a solitary sport , but as a team ," she said on the beach.
"I must say that I was a little bit of it now, " Nyad said she pointed to her swollen lips and said " sea " .
I told her that she was slurring her words while she was out in the water, she was on a stretcher on the beach and get IV , before she was taken by ambulance to the hospital.
"I just wanted to get out of the sun, " she said.
It was an attempt to carry five Nyad to swim about 110 miles , she tried three times in 2011 and 2012 , her first attempt in 1978 .
"It's a great historic " Jose Miguel Diaz Escrich, Hemingway Marina Commodore who helped organize the collaborative effort of Cuban Nyad said.
"I always thought that she would do it within her power is strong, both in body and mind, she is made of steel ," Diaz Escrich whom Nyad described as a longtime friend said.
" More than the athletes she wants. To send a message . Of peace , love and happiness ... friendship between the people of the United States and Cuba, " he said.
Try her last cruise was cut short in the midst of trouble , storms, tides, inclement jellyfish sting that left her face swollen and puffy.
This time she wears a body suit , full , gloves , boots and a mask at night increased jellyfish on to the surface mask silicone that caused sores in her mouth , making it difficult for her to talk . she said her team when she was about 2 miles from the mainland .
Nyad was traveling with the doctors worry about her slurred speech and breathing on her , but they did not intervene , according to Nyad 's website .
Trip Nyad began on Saturday morning when she jumped from the dam of the Hemingway Marina in Havana , she stopped at the water for maintenance , but she never left the water .
Her support team is equipped to build wind electric field , which has been around her . Designed to keep sharks at bay boat to tow the line in the water to help her , of course .
Sumaya Haddin of Miami has been tracked swimming, Nyad before getting her family to Key West at the weekend , she was surprised to see the Task Force Nyad to bail out Smather Beach on Monday morning. she thought that Nyad was not due for another day .
"You can not see her, you would see the boat , it was very exciting ," she said .
Haddin Nyad said, still fighting spirit when she got to the beach, " getting into the ambulance , the peace sign , her fists , her up , she was still fired up ."
Australian Susie Maroney successfully swim the Channel in 1997 with the addition of a shark cage for protection from predators , the swimmers and the body .
In 2012 , Australian Penny Palfrey swim 79 miles to Florida without a cage before strong currents forced her to abandon the attempt in June this rural Chloe she McCardel make it 11 hours and 14 miles before the sting . Medusa the auction ends.
In 1978, Walter Poenisch, Ohio , Baker claims that have been made using the pool and diving fins critics say that there is a document that is independent enough to investigate his claims .
Nyad first came to national attention in 1975 when she was swimming 28 miles around Manhattan Island in just under eight hours in 1979, she was swimming 102 miles from Florida , the Bahamas . Juno Beach, Florida , in 27.5 hours.
Nyad also the author . The third book , speaker . Inspire and get the coverage and NPR commentator .
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