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Key West, Florida (CNN) -- This time, neither
storm nor 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.
On Monday, Nyad became the first person to swim
from Cuba to Florida without a protective 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.
Nyad pumped her fist as she walked onto the
beach toward an awaiting medic before being
guided to an ambulance.
Dozens of onlookers -- some in kayaks and boats,
many others wading in the water or standing on
shore -- gathered to cheer her on as she finished
the more-than-100-mile swim.
It was a long-awaited triumph for Nyad,
who was making her fifth attempt since
1978 and her fourth since turning 60.
The first four tries were marked by gut-
wrenching setbacks; if the rough,
strength-sapping seas didn't force her to
quit, an hours-long asthma attack or
paralyzing and excruciating jellyfish stings
did.
But for this swim, besides donning a suit
meant to protect her against her jellyfish
nemesis, she wore a special mask to
prevent jellyfish stings to her tongue, a key factor
in her failed attempt last year.
She and her support team didn't encounter many
jellyfish this time. But she had plenty of other
challenges, and with roughly 2.5 miles left to go,
she paused in the water to thank her crew.
"This is a lifelong dream of mine, and I'm very,
very glad to be with you," she said late Monday
morning, treading water as she spoke to her team
on the five boats gathered around her, according
to the team's website.
"You pulled through; you are pros and have a
great heart. So let's get going so we can have a
whopping party," she said, according to the
website.
Nyad's age was one of the intriguing aspects of
her latest attempts. Nyad, who was 29 when she
first tried, said last week that she wanted to show
that "you can dream at any age."
"This time, I am 64. So, the years of my life are
shorter to the end," she said at a news conference
in Havana on Friday. "So this time I am, all the
way across ... going to think about all those life
lessons that came up during the swim."
Fatigue almost seemed poised to derail her again
early Monday.
About 7:30 a.m. ET, she was slurring her speech
because of a swollen tongue and lips, her support
team reported on its website.
As the team called her around dawn for her first
feeding since midnight, she took longer than
normal to reach the support boat, the report said.
Divers swam ahead of her, collecting jellyfish and
moving them out of Nyad's path.
When instructed Monday morning to follow the
path that's been cleared for her, she flashed her
sense of humor, replying, "I've never been able to
follow it in my life," according to the website.
Nyad's home stretch followed an overnight in
which she became so cold, the team didn't stop
her for feeding until first light "in the hopes that
swimming would keep her warm," the website
said.
Every stroke she swam put her deeper into record
territory. On Sunday night, she broke Penny
Palfrey's record for the farthest anyone has
managed on the trek without a shark cage.
In 1997, Australian Susie Maroney completed the
swim from within a shark cage. She was 22 at the
time.
Nyad set out from Havana at 8:59 a.m. Saturday
with a crew of 35, including divers to watch for
sharks.
Nyad's first attempt to cross the Straits of Florida
was in 1978, when rough seas left her battered,
delirious and less than halfway toward her goal.
She tried again twice in 2011, but her efforts
ended after an 11-hour asthma attack and
jellyfish stings.
Last year, she abandoned an attempt about
halfway through after severe jellyfish stings and a
lightning storm put her in danger.
Nyad was a swimming sensation before these
attempts. In the 1970s, she won multiple
swimming marathons and was one of the first
women to swim around the island of Manhattan.
Nyad said she was 8 years old when she first
dreamed about swimming across the Straits of
Florida. At the time, she was in Cuba on a trip
from her home in Florida in the 1950s, before
Fidel Castro led a Communist takeover in Cuba
and the country's relations with the United States
soured.
The Los Angeles woman had said this was going
to be her final attempt.

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