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I'm feeling
that I'm as powerful as that ocean. I'm 30 feet wide,
with incredible strength and shoulders. Nothing's gonna stop me
to get to the other side. Diana Nyad's been packaged
as the invincible marathon swimmer. After a year of training, she is in Havana ready
to swim the 103 miles from Cuba to the Florida Keys. Nyad and her sponsors
have spent about $150,000. 40 by 22-foot long,
10-ton steel cage. This is designed to protect Diana Nyad from the sharks and Portuguese men of war which will be making the swim
alongside her. Diana Nyad
will swim approximately a quarter of a million strokes. She'll lose about 20 pounds doing it, and everyone expects her to be
hospitalized from exhaustion and exposure. If there was ever anyone
who could do it, it's now and it's me. This swim is much, much closer
to impossible than it is to possible
that I'm as powerful as that ocean. I'm 30 feet wide,
with incredible strength and shoulders. Nothing's gonna stop me
to get to the other side. Diana Nyad's been packaged
as the invincible marathon swimmer. After a year of training, she is in Havana ready
to swim the 103 miles from Cuba to the Florida Keys. Nyad and her sponsors
have spent about $150,000. 40 by 22-foot long,
10-ton steel cage. This is designed to protect Diana Nyad from the sharks and Portuguese men of war which will be making the swim
alongside her. Diana Nyad
will swim approximately a quarter of a million strokes. She'll lose about 20 pounds doing it, and everyone expects her to be
hospitalized from exhaustion and exposure. If there was ever anyone
who could do it, it's now and it's me. This swim is much, much closer
to impossible than it is to possible
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I'm feeling
that I'm as powerful as that ocean.
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I'm 30 feet wide,
with incredible strength and shoulders.
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Nothing's gonna stop me
to get to the other side.
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Diana Nyad's been packaged
as the invincible marathon swimmer.
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After a year of training,
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she is in Havana ready
to swim the 103 miles
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from Cuba to the Florida Keys.
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Nyad and her sponsors
have spent about $150,000.
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40 by 22-foot long,
10-ton steel cage.
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This is designed to protect Diana Nyad
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from the sharks and Portuguese men of war
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which will be making the swim
alongside her.
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Diana Nyad
will swim approximately
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a quarter of a million strokes.
00:00:40.416 --> 00:00:42.375
She'll lose about 20 pounds doing it,
00:00:42.375 --> 00:00:45.791
and everyone expects her to be
hospitalized from exhaustion and exposure.
00:00:45.791 --> 00:00:49.998
If there was ever anyone
who could do it, it's now and it's me.
00:00:49.998 --> 00:00:53.291
This swim is much, much closer
to impossible than it is to possible.
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Movie Summary
The remarkable true story of athlete Diana Nyad who, at the age of 60 and with the help of her best friend and coach, commits to achieving her life-long dream: a 110-mile open ocean swim from Cuba to Florida.
