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[thunder rumbles]

♪ The itsy bitsy spider ♪

♪ Crawls up the water spout ♪

♪ Down comes the rain ♪

♪ And wipes the spider out ♪

♪ Out comes the sun ♪

♪ And dries up all the rain ♪

If somebody's gonna get killed,

they gotta pull her up on the boat for safety.

♪ The itsy bitsy spider ♪

♪ Crawls up the spout again ♪

Are we gonna do that? Are we gonna pull her into the dinghy?

If we have to, yeah.

[Diana] There's this age-old discussion…

That debates the journey and the destination.

You can take life itself.

Is it a journey, or is it just getting somewhere?

[man] The threat is not imminent yet.

We're just planning what we will do, if and when.

[Diana] Ironically, you wouldn't take the journey,

you wouldn't be that committed…

If there weren't that destination.

So I picture, I visualize it.

I wake up in the middle of the night…

Seeing lights.

[Bonnie] You all stand here like idiots.

[man] I'm not talking about putting somebody's life at risk.

Okay, so how would you like all of these people to react?

[Diana] It's what keeps me going…

Is the real vision of that other shore.

[thunder rumbles]

[man] Diana Nyad, World Champion Marathon Swimmer,

Phi Beta Kappa Winner, Linguist, Author.

[man #2] 25-year-old, who is believed to be…

The best long distance woman swimmer in the world.

[man #3] Her name, Nyad, translates in Greek to "water nymph."

[woman] She's swam across several bodies of water around the world,

including Lake Ontario.

Last fall she swam around Manhattan Island,

making the 28-mile trip in record time.

Later today she leaves for England…

To prepare for her swim back and forth across the Channel.

[Diana] When you reach the other shore,

the emotional thrill is overwhelming.

To me it's a high like none other I know and,

and until that, it reaches a great imbalance…

Until the pain becomes greater than the pleasure,

I'm gonna keep doing these, uh, lunatic swims.

Diana Nyad swam from Bimini…

in the Bahamas to Florida,

the first swimmer to challenge the Gulfstream and win.

[Dan Rather] After 27 hours and 38 minutes,

Diana Nyad came triumphantly ashore at Jupiter, Florida,

the only person ever to swim from the Bahamas to Florida.

[people cheering]

[woman] I guess I have to ask you the obvious question:

Why do you do it?

[Diana] The most difficult thing I know mentally…

or physically is swimming these great bodies of water.

And I feel like I have a…

moment of immortality when I get to the other side.

Do you have a timetable for yourself,

when you're gonna retire from marathon swimming?

Oh, yeah. That's Cuba.

I mean, the way I look at it, Bimini is the appetizer,

Cuba is the main course and retirement's the dessert.

But what if you don't make it?

[Diana] When I was 30 years old,

when I was about to retire, the President of ABC Sports…

was offering me a job and I thought, well,

before I take a job, before I leave sport, retire,

which is about 30, is about right for that sort of thing,

I'm gonna do one more swim.

We would get together the nautical charts…

of the earth's surface,

and we would throw out the Antarctic Circle…

and places that were, you know, terribly unrealistic.

And after a while…

I just, I started staring at it…

and I started thinking,

it's Cuba, there's nowhere else.

Forget looking any farther. Throw out all the other maps.

It's Cuba. That's my dream.

[woman] The 103-mile, 60-hour journey…

from Havana, Cuba, to Key West, Florida.

[man] If the seas remain calm, she'll still have to…

brave sharks and exhaustion…

During her two-and-a-half days in the water.

[man #2] To make it, her mind must keep…

perfect pace with her body, stroke for stroke.

[woman] On this secluded Ortegasa Beach…

Some 40 miles west of Havana,

Diana's Trainers perform the final…

Last-minute ritual,

the greasing down of the long distance swimmer.

At 2:07 on the afternoon of Sunday, August 13th,

Diana Nyad begins her marathon swim.

She's heading for the safety of the shark cage…

She's named "The Cleopatra."

[man] Is she getting any change in the water temperature? Over.

[man #2] No change in temperature. Out.

[man #1] How are things in general over there?

[man #2] Everything else is, um, A-OK. Over.

[man] Navigational progress has been poor.

We're putting our nose right into these big seas,

which makes the situation absolutely intolerable…

For Diana inside the cage.

We're just keeping her moving ahead,

regardless of the direction.

We got problems right now. It's too rough.

[radio static]

[man] Looks like this is the end of the road.

[woman] On Tuesday morning, after battling 41 hours…

And 54 minutes of relentless weather conditions…

and hopelessly off course,

Diana was pulled from the water.

It took five minutes to convince her…

The swim was impossible.

She kept saying, "What will it take?

I know I can go on for at least 30 more hours."

We got her.

Easy now. Support her.

[Diana] Where else can I do a swim, a great swim?

Let's think of a hundred miles. I'll go swim there.

You know what I mean?

Wait just a second, all right?

I don't want to just give up and go back and never swim again.

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[Diana] The only reason I would ever try it again…

Would be if I need it.

If I need it for my heart and my soul,

and, uh, I have no way of knowing that right now.

[Diana] The day I turned 30 I thought to myself,

I will never swim another stroke in my life.

I used to swim eight, nine, ten hours a day literally.

And when you're done, you're done.

I now fight the sharks of the broadcasting business.

-I know those! -They're worse!

[Diana] You couldn't have paid me a million dollars…

To go through the suffering and the agony…

And the long hours of training for marathon swimming again.

So I began my career…

As a television and radio sports broadcaster.

And there you were, out in an outside lane. You never looked once.

You did it. The best time of

your career, the best time in the world. How do you feel?

The man who had the perfect physique, World Champion 13 times.

Winning the Iditarod has nothing whatsoever to do…

[Diana] The tragedy of sports is, you retire when you're young.

I said to myself, don't forget this.

Don't forget this feeling of confidence.

Don't forget this feeling of not giving up.

Take it to the rest of your life.

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[exhales]

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I never had a problem with age.

But last year I was getting in to a kind of a metaphysical…

funk over being 60.

How could this have happened? What have I done with my--

what haven't I done with my life?

What am I gonna do with the little time that's left me?

My mother had just passed away, I thought,

I'm gonna blink and it's gonna be all over.

The only sort of World-Class Swim…

I had tried and failed at back in my 20's…

was going from Cuba to Florida.

It was deep in my imagination.

No one's ever done it without a shark cage.

It's daunting, it's more than 100 miles…

across a difficult passage of ocean.

[Diana] I think a lot of us live with regrets…

day to day, that we're not feeling fulfilled.

I haven't been in a relationship in 20 years.

Take that.

It's a devastating feeling.

[indistinct]

I was missing the high of commitment.

I'd go around my house and I'd look at the Cuban Flag.

I can just tell that I'm just not quite done.

Cuba was always in my heart,

and I hate to give up on that.

I started with 20 minutes…

at a Country Club Pool.

I hadn't swum for 31 years, at all.

And I was very clandestine…

Because I didn't know if I really had this in me.

A couple months later, I'm doing four hours.

I was thinking 103 miles, 60, 70 hours.

Can I last that long?

Does this body, does this heart have that…

Length of swimming in her that no one's ever done?

There's dehydration…

and there's hypothermia and there are sharks.

There is going to be pain. There's going to be suffering.

[sighs]

[Diana] I looked myself in the mirror and I said,

you have this in you. You do.

It's more than in your body.

The body I know will come around, but it's,

it's in your soul, it's in your heart.

You can do this.

Last year I turned 60, and I was pissed off.

[laughter]

I said, I don't want to be 60.

I feel young! I feel powerful!

I got a lot of chi left in this life!

[cheering]

And my best days are not behind me.

I got plenty of great days in front of me.

When I walk up on this beach this time,

the whole world's gonna see me and say,

"60 is the new 40!"

[cheering]

Whoo!

I thought it was the one thing in my life that I would…

Never have to do again.

-Yeah. It's taken me by surprise too. -Yes.

I can envision her making it. I can see her, I mean--

I can see her stepping up on to the shore.

And I, I can't logically figure out how…

I can still really see her doing that…

Knowing…

What I know about the last 24 hours.

[Candace] You know, to you this is…

a nourishing, constructive thing to do.

Which is hard to imagine.

If you look at the facts of it, you know,

it's just too extreme to be healthy.

I'm scared to death, you know.

I want you to be…

Uh, well.

I want you, uh, you know,

I don't want…

Anything awful to happen, you know what I mean?

If all the weather things are in place, I--

I think it's possible simply because…

-Of your mind, I don't know what it is. -Yeah.

For most people it would be enough…

That you had the world record already.

But no.

It was never about that.

Don't you just want to stay home with me…

And watch reruns?

-Yeah. -You know.

[man] Nyad will follow the rules of the world professional…

Marathon Swimming Federation.

No floatation devices,

no sleep during the 60 hours of swimming,

no hanging on to boats,

and only a bathing cap, goggles, two swimsuits…

And some grease to protect her body.

[Diana] When you're in the cage,

you're safer from sharks, but you're not out in the open sea.

And this kind of sport…

Is meant to be the person and the elements.

The wind, the currents, the waves, the tides,

the sharks.

What would be some other things I might worry about in this swim?

-Jellyfish. -Bingo!

I'm very afraid of the Portuguese Man o' War.

The adult male can have…

Tentacles that go 100 feet down.

And they're invisible. They're like gelatin.

And they're filled with a poison,

and they put a chemical…

Into the central nervous system.

They're trying to paralyze you.

Hour by hour, you know, the-the shoulders,

the stomach, the cold, the distance, the mind.

You just gotta have the-the discipline to…

to have the faith, stick with it,

remember why you want to do it in the first place.

So I'm, um, you know, I'm a little uptight.

I try to use my positive thinking.

I look at that water and I say, it's warm.

It's warm, and I try to feel the sun…

Right here at my solar plexus radiating heat.

And then you just have to deal with the reality…

Of what it really is.

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[Diana] I just got an email from…

a doctor who's the head of a sports medicine…

Institute in South Africa.

He's trying to help me with some feeding ideas.

And he started out and he said, I just…

have to let you know right away that we've been studying…

athletes for many years here, and we personally don't think…

What you're about to do is humanly possible.

[in Spanish] We'll go together

I don't know how many hours, and…

I'll wait

[Diana in English] People saying, I don't think you can do this swim.

That makes me dig down, that makes me even more terrier-like…

to say, I want to get it done.

And there's nothing like really proving it.

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[in Spanish] Perfect.

Perfect. Thank you.

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[in Spanish] Its cold.

[Man in Spanish] It's getting cold. The Norte is always cold.

[Dianne in Spanish] Yes.

I just can't generate any heat anymore.

It's getting, uh,

it's been about an hour now that I just can't…

Get any heat going in my body.

[indistinct]

Ooh.

Ooh.

Ooh.

Ooh.

Ooh.

Ooh.

Oh, thank you.

Oh.

Ooh.

[shivering]

[groaning]

Oh, the temperature's just a little too cold.

I couldn't, I couldn't keep it up.

Ooh.

Ooh.

[shivering]

[sighs]

[people talking, laughing]

It's just the cold. That's all it is.

It's just the cold.

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[Diana] My father, he was born a Greek,

but he grew up in Egypt.

He spoke in a very thick accent.

He was extremely handsome.

Quite the ladies man. Danced every dance there was.

Spoke all these languages.

He was Mr. Charm.

He used to wake us up like at 3:00 in the morning…

All of us and says, "Kids, the full moon is casting on the ocean!

"A path of light!

"Like it looks like a Rembrandt Painting!

We must go see it, right now!"

And we'd say, "Dad, we're sleeping! We have school!

We're not gonna go look at the light on the ocean!"

He says, "I am telling you, this is more important…

to your life than school."

So we all get on our sneakers and we're all like,

"Whoa, God, here we go again. What is he doing?"

But when we get there it is 4:00 in the morning…

and we see a light like you've never seen…

Lighting up the entire ocean…

as if it was a Cecil B. Demille movie.

And we stand there and hear the lapping of the waves…

and we all looked at each other like,

"He's right."

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My mother, she had this tenderness.

I know she felt it for me. It was in her eyes.

She used to open the door a crack…

And sing from the doorjamb.

"Bon soir, cheri.

Good night, my little darling."

Instead of, as you come in, your mom lies in bed with you…

and cuddles with you and wraps you up…

And reads to you, you know?

And, um, and she didn't.

She wasn't that kind of mother.

My father was a con artist, so he was a professional liar…

and a professional thief.

He was a violent guy.

He used to beat my brother and I.

A hairbrush and belts.

We'd go to the beach.

I was about 11 maybe, I think.

There were showers, and I was still…

just on that borderline of being a kid who could…

take your bathing suit off when you get to the shower, there are towels.

And so we were all up there,

my father and me and my little sister.

And I had on a one-piece bathing suit and I,

like I had been doing my whole life,

you know, just stripped it off real quickly,

got my head under the water to get the salt water.

And my father took his hand…

And he grabbed it in between my legs hard.

Like-like grabbed and held…

and looked up to, looked up at me.

He was bending down too, with this gargoylish…

grin on his face, like, I've got you.

I was just absolutely frozen, I couldn't,

I couldn't run, I couldn't cry,

I couldn't fight him off, I was just paralyzed.

Once I had been touched inappropriately…

there was an element of terror for me.

If I were in my room…

and I wanted to make it to the kitchen…

to get a drink of water or whatever it was,

I would have to, you know, plan carefully.

Every kid loves to be good at something,

and I found a sport early on that I was good at.

And then when you add on to that…

that I was out of my house early in the morning…

and didn't have to come home at dinner.

It was the place that made me feel safe.

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I'm just putting a liquid band-aid on…

'cause she gets very chafed and raw.

This is the, this is the spot.

[Diana] For the last three decades,

Bonnie and I have been through thick and thin.

She's my athlete soul.

The first time I saw Diana was…

when she was on Johnny Carson.

She walked on to Johnny Carson's show as if…

it was her show.

Happy to be there and no fear whatsoever.

I'm glad to meet you, by the way.

I was wondering how many times I'd have to do your show before I met you.

[laughter]

Ed had to wait five years.

[ED] That's right.

When I met Bonnie, I was retired.

So swimming was over. I was 30 years old.

She was in her prime.

[man] Bonnie Stoll, number 13 ranked in the nation.

-[cheering] -Serving.

[Bonnie] I was a brat.

I was just a John Mcenroe when he was a younger kind of guy.

I was like that. It wasn't pretty.

[Diana] You know, we're kind of like two alpha dogs.

You know, there's nobody more alpha than Bonnie.

She's the leader, she's been called the Pied Piper.

'Cause she barks and everybody follows.

We became friends very quickly.

I became her fitness coach, and I taught her how…

to interval train, how to weight train,

all the things that she became sort of expert at.

[woman] And in a little bit, we're going o hear how the stars stay in shape.

[man] Private trainer Bonnie Stoll,

who's worked with many of Hollywood's…

high-profile clientele.

And now she, who was never a swimmer,

just like I was never a racquetball player, becomes…

my trainer and my handler and my coach.

You ready to go? Yep.

We're out.

[man] Nyad's training has been rigorous.

Beginning at 6:00 a.m., she usually runs…

12 miles in 72 minutes.

8:00 a.m., into the pool for the endless laps.

1:00 p.m., on sophisticated weight training equipment…

called Nautilus Machines.

[Groans]

[man] Combined with some rope skipping…

and calisthenics, the pace is exhausting.

7:00 p.m., home to her apartment.

Obviously, housecleaning is an activity which gets…

very little time in Diana's hectic schedule.

Diana's training requires a tremendous amount of calories,

and sometimes those calories are eaten in strange forms,

as at this meal when she begins with beef stew,

then yogurt,

and finally a banana.

[Diana] I am more psyched…

for this swim than I've been for anything in my life.

And I think that being psyched…

has gotten me where I've been so far.

I guess that's what gives me the confidence I'm gonna make it.

-So Bonnie? -Yeah?

I didn't get a chance to tell you 'cause I'm gonna tell them,

Yeah.

But I like to stay about this far, about ten yards…

away, and I like to look right in the middle of the boat.

I just want to turn my head like this and see you, right to the side.

You want me to go this way.

You take an arm, and take your back…

and to put it in the exact direction I want, do a chop.

Okay.

That was a long three hours.

Not for us.

-Water first? -Please.

[Diana] Bonnie is a rock.

She's clear and strong, and there's not a lot of…

smooth talking around it, and it works for me.

You are too close to the reef!

You have to swim this way!

But why is the boat so far away.

Diana, listen!

Listen. Listen, okay?

Can you hear me? You can hear me.

-Come on. -I don't know what's changed.

The boat's been right here all day,

and now all of a sudden I'm a hundred meters away!

Okay. Swim.

[Bonnie] I got on board…

as a support for Diana.

I think Diana needs it so much now because…

she feels like there's been a lull in her life,

an empty space.

Come on, you're doing great. Stay with it.

-You're doing great. -Okay.

Just don't get frustrated…

I'm not. I just feel terrible.

I am, I,

I really feel badly that you're so frustrated.

So it makes me frustrated. I'm very sorry.

It's okay.

The current is awful. We're not making it, huh? We're not gonna make it.

We're going to make it. I mean in ten hours.

Yeah, you're good. You're good.

You're good. You're totally good.

We've gotta stay with this pace.

[Bonnie] The first thing I started thinking is,

okay, what if she doesn't make it?

Is it something she wants to prove to herself?

Is it something she needs to prove to others?

Is it something that she's trying to…

deal with?

But, Puerto Morelos is the first time…

that I saw Diana Nyad doing…

what Diana Nyad was born to do,

and that is swim.

I'd never known an athlete like this.

This is an anomaly.

For anybody to…

have this level of concentration…

That something had to have happened.

Everything that happened to Diana in her past,

if she makes this swim in her mind…

A lot of that dissipates, a lot of it.

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[indistinct]

Okay.

[indistinct]

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[Diana] 14 years old…

I was the best backstroker in the whole state of Florida.

We had the state meet at our school.

The way they usually work is over two, three days…

you swim prelims in the morning, you have the afternoon off…

to go home, get a nap,

get a rest, and come back at night…

and just swim the finals under the lights at night.

I went back to Coach's house.

All of us kids on the swim team went to Coach's house…

all the time.

We played poker games there on Saturday night.

We all babysat for his kids.

We were all part of Coach's family.

He was always huggy with everybody…

and he knew all the families and,

you know, I just thought, this is a father.

This is the way a father should act.

And so I go into his and his wife's bedroom…

and I was sleeping on top of the bed clothes.

He came in and just pounced on top of me.

I was sleeping in my bathing suit.

He ripped the bathing suit part top off of it.

He was breathing and bucking,

and he was begging me to get the bottom part off.

I vomited. He didn't care.

I think this whole thing lasted tops five minutes…

from his entering to his leaving.

I had to get in the car with him to ride back to the school.

And usually he and I were just like a couple of chatterboxes.

We didn't say a word, not one syllable…

from his house to the pool.

I lost that night.

And the kids in the team, I remember a couple of them…

coming up to me and saying, "Are you all right?

"Are you coming down with the flu or something? That's okay.

You never lose. Just chalk it up. Just be one."

The first one was violent.

All the others through high school were more,

"Look, I know that you don't understand this.

"I'm a grown man. You're just a kid.

"But you'll understand one day, I need this.

"And I love you. I love you so much.

"I wish I could divorce my wife and marry you even,

"But that's ridiculous. You're 14 years old.

I"So we can't do that, but I need this intimacy so…

"You're gonna meet me after school,

and we're gonna go down to that motel down the road."

And I just, I did it.

I was under his spell and thought,

I had to do this.

There's tremendous power in anger,

and in my 20's I swam with a lot of anger.

I was so angry at myself…

For not helping myself.

I could do 30 chin-ups.

I was a strong young physical being.

So why didn't I throw him off me?

Why didn't I go to the principal and say,

"That pervert of a swim coach you have just did this to me.

I want his ass out of this school."

Why didn't I go to my mother and say,

"Do you know this is happening?"

I let it happen.

[people talking, indistinct]

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[Diana] Boats, yachts,

ponga…

Kayaks.

Put next to the kayaks,

put, um, Stewart…

Out of St. Maarten.

Now see, what he's…

trying to do, Bonnie is,

he has this shark device.

It puts in a field of electricity that sharks hate.

Wow.

They tested it with a bloody horse's leg.

I know you don't like to hear stuff like that.

5,000 sharks came…

and 5,000 went away without touching the leg.

Sounds like we need that. It's pretty good.

-Okay. -We need a doctor to come on these swims…

-Perfect. Perfect. -Who, if I had a bad, uh,

-Portuguese Wan o' War sting. -Perfect. Perfect.

-Right? -Yeah. Getting excited?

I'm getting pressure, like is this…

Really gonna happen or not?

[Diana] It seems like I'm alone out there and I'm the only one…

accomplishing this, but the truth is it's a,

it's a deep team of experts.

It's an expedition.

I need handlers who…

feed me and motivate me.

There's a navigation team,

a shark diver team, a kayak team…

with electric shark devices on it.

There's a jellyfish team, a weather team.

There's a medical team.

You got a whole support team…

that's helping all those people do their jobs,

so you've got 35 people,

all of whom are at the top of their fields,

helping this expedition be successful.

[woman] Marathon swimming, even to this extreme,

is not a glamorous sport.

Diana Nyad needed attention and money,

and the Visa for this venture.

Several commercial sponsors are providing the funds,

but Nyad's bathing suit will not display their logos.

-Morning, David. -Good morning, Diane.

-How are you? -Very good, very good.

-Pleasure to meet you. -Good to meet you, Diane.

-How are you doing? -Good.

-And it's Diana with an "a." -Diana, okay.

This is very important. It is, it is.

'Cause I know many Dianes and Dianas, and Di's.

-Oh, yeah. Lots of them. -It's hard to get them all right.

-No, you gotta pay attention. -Yes.

We go out the bridge, and when we go out the bridge,

-Yeah.

You just gotta hang this side of the channel.

Okay.

I don't know where I am, so it's not me…

Who's hanging this side of the channel, it's you.

[Diana] The big issue in 1978 was timing.

A day was chosen and I remember,

I got down to the shore with my six handlers…

And we're looking out at a raging sea of whitecaps.

[man] Right now we're not paying too much attention…

To course at all.

We're just keeping her moving ahead,

regardless of the direction.

We've got problems right now. It's too rough.

[Diana] And we were just in raging seas…

For 42 hours, and I didn't make it.

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[David] Cuba to Key West is quite difficult.

It's got the Gulfstream, it's got lots of fish.

And there's lots of factors that make it a lot more difficult…

Than almost any other swim.

I'm having a tough day.

[David] Yeah, it's rough out here.

Nature's kind of fighting her on this one most of the way.

You don't head straight for Key West.

You're gonna head up from it, and you'll make it.

And you can judge that angle, but swimming it at…

two miles an hour and with a changing current,

that angle can be very difficult to-to get right.

[David] Geez, look it, we can't even get to you in this calm water.

Now we'll be doing it out there in the rough.

Can you get over?

[shivering]

Oh.

Just take your time.

Oh.

[Diana] I was so convinced…

that I'm in good enough shape to do like a…

20-hour swim. I'm not.

I might, I might,

you know, use my…

Will to get through a 20-hour swim right now,

but it wouldn't be pretty, I'd have to--

it would hurt, I'd have to slow down,

I wouldn't be in command of it.

And when you're ready, you holler.

Okay.

There we go.

[vomiting sounds]

[continues]

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[Diana] Months were going by.

I had a lot of pressures on me.

The sharks, the money, the visas, the training.

The training.

Seems like just pure masochism.

It can be exhausting, it can be frustrating.

It's hard on the body, and it's very hard on the mind.

And so it's the heart that has to remind yourself…

why you want to do it.

♪♪

Diana!

[Diana] I'm trying to get your directions,

but when the boat's so far away I don't know what you're saying.

Just follow. Let's go. We're going this way.

All right.

You understand? We're going this way.

♪♪

[man] Hello! Sous le pont?

[Bonnie] Yes, le pont.

-Bonne chance, eh? -Yes, bonne chance.

Au revoir.

[woman] I can barely see her. Can he see her?

♪♪

She's basically out there swimming blind, in blackness.

[Bonnie] Love you!

Seeing anybody do…

what they do best…

Is beautiful.

And she does this better than anyone ever.

♪♪

♪♪

♪♪

This swim across the Florida Straits…

is not just one English Channel, it's not two English Channels.

This is not three English Channels,

it's not four English Channels.

It's the equivalent of five English Channels…

in water where the most venomous creatures…

in the world are present.

♪♪

[Bonnie] Look at her. She could, she could--

she could go on forever just like that.

♪♪

[Bonnie] Good job!

[clapping and cheering]

[David] You were outstanding!

Whoo!

Is she crying?

This way, Diana! Whoo!

Hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo!

[clapping]

-Best, Diana. -Here you go, Diana.

Can your legs move?

[laughter]

Whoo!

How about that?

Beautiful.

[woman] 30 years ago, I think she…

felt the edges of her limitations,

but she didn't get there.

She's a fearless person and, and that's a rare thing.

There you go. There you go.

Got her then?

You got her.

[Bonnie] Watch the back.

[man] Use my shoulder if you need to.

There you go. Use my shoulder.

[woman] Sit her down right there next to you.

Oh.

There you go!

Dry land.

Oh, what a day. What a day.

It's all right.

[Bonnie] I worry sometimes that her heart…

is stronger than her body,

and that she would try to bring…

her body where…

Bodies really don't go,

where only the spirit goes.

♪♪

[Diana] The Cuban visas come in, and finally…

we're waiting for the weather, and it's an…

unprecedented year of Atlantic Hurricanes.

Hey, what's going on?

This isn't what--

-Don't be nervous. Don't be nervous. -It's tough, tough times.

What are you seeing?

Well, it's a tough call.

-Is it? -I just came down from the bedroom going,

-"It looks good, it looks really good." -Yeah?

But now I just fired it up again and it looks different.

We're trying to find three days of flat calm.

Which is very rare in these straits.

At this point I would still say this is a marginal…

to fair window starting Friday.

This is the peak of hurricane season right now, so…

playing with the weather and trying to predict it,

and it's kind of like Russian roulette with mother nature.

[Diana] Every hurdle that's come up,

you can put those in one pile…

and none of that comes close…

To being as agonizing as this time right now,

waiting at the ultimate moment of the season…

and worrying and fearing…

That time's gonna run out on me.

The window of calm won't come…

before the warm water disappears for the year.

People are on alert in L.A., St. Maarten,

down to Guadalupe, up to Vermont…

for the red alert, and as soon as the red alert comes,

they get on a one-way ticket, they get to Key West,

they get on the boats that are gonna stage here.

Do I sound like my adrenaline is flowing off the charts? No, this is great.

I need to sleep. I need some rest.

I bumped into your arm, it was like running into a steel I-beam.

I said, this lady is ready to go.

I couldn't be more ready. You're right.

I feel like I could walk through a brick wall.

On the other hand, I'm scared to death.

And finally tonight, someone who is a kind of hero…

for so many of us, Diana Nyad,

the incredible swimmer is back…

and about to embark on something we couldn't believe.

An epic personal journey.

Diana Nyad has set her sights…

on conquering a feat that has eluded her for 30 years.

[woman] What if you never make it, the Cuba swim?

Well, the Cuba swim is rough, I mean, I don't think…

anybody knows at this point if it can be done.

I think I'm capable of making it.

But you're right, what if?

I mean if we knew I could make it, it wouldn't be very exciting.

♪♪

♪♪

Whoo!

[clapping]

This is Diana. We're in Cuba.

Um, We have decided to make an 8:00 p.m. departure tomorrow.

The current's gonna wash her this way, so much. Right.

So you don't wanna be there, you don't wanna be in here,

you don't wanna be in here, it's too far.

So you need to be either out here.

This is, this dock here looks good.

That is a nice, clean rock. She can just jump into the water there.

That would be perfect.

[man in Spanish] It's low, but later comes…

[Diana in Spanish] It's a very important moment for me.

My whole life, I've had nothing but respect for Cubans

It's incredibly sad, that we don't all know each other

And I hope that my little swim is gonna be a,

a small symbol of a human,

a moment of human connection.

Gracias.

[indistinct]

♪♪

♪♪

[Diana] I started going into adrenaline overdrive.

I'm trying to keep it down, but right now it's like…

-my adrenaline is just flying off. -[Bonnie] okay.

All the way up through my throat. You just slept, so it's good.

-Yeah. -It's good. Come on.

The first goal is just the night, okay?

-Just tonight. -Just get through the night.

And stay calm.

[Diana] I'm really happy about this starting point, you know?

It's beautiful.

It's real Cuba.

[people talking, indistinct]

[in Spanish] Thank you very much, everyone.

Gracias.

[clapping and cheering]

[in Spanish] Thank you, thank you, thank you everyone!

[clapping and cheering]

And now I look out at a dead, flat calm.

So I think this is my day. And, uh, I don't know.

You have to talk to me in 24 hours, and then in 48 hours,

and then in 60 hours we'll see how I feel.

[Diana] People always ask, what's the toughest part?

To swim for two-and-a-half days,

where's the tough point gonna be?

By far, not even close,

it's going to be on the beach…

at the moment before embarking.

I love you so much.

I love you, baby.

Let's do it. All right?

Every step of the way.

[clapping]

[cheering]

[sighs]

[people talking, indistinct]

-She's in the water. -[man] yeah.

-[David] Can you believe it, Bonnie? -Oh, my God.

David. Take my hand.

Look at your shit. Damn!

What a choice of nights to leave on, huh?

-Yeah, look at that water. -Damn!

Whoo. Yeah, we couldn't have done better than this.

This is perfect. Perfect.

Let's just hope it holds for three days.

Man, oh, man.

Wow!

[David] They're gonna leave us to our own devices.

♪♪

[Diana] This 90 minutes. How do I get through it?

Am I gonna count?

Am I gonna sing Neil Young's "Damage Done"…

for the next hour-and-a-half, like maybe 1,500 times?

♪♪

[Diana] This is it.

This is a mission that we are going to accomplish.

I am not getting out unless I'm eaten by a shark,

or go unconscious.

I don't care what pain I'm in.

I am not getting out until I walk up…

or crawl up on that shore.

♪♪

♪♪

I'm getting punch drunk. I'm gonna have to sleep soon.

[whistle blowing]

whoo! Yeah!

[man] come on! Now let's do this!

Come on!

[Bonnie] Well done.

That was so impressive.

I'm sorry.

I'm sorry.

I mean, I feel like it's gonna come out of its socket.

It's not, it's not. You'll be okay.

-It's just the pain when I press here. -Where?

-Okay. So it's every time you come down? -Yeah.

Against the wall?

[Diana] it's at the top. It's at the top.

Start manipulating your bicep more than your shoulder.

I don't care about pain.

-I know, I understand. -I just don't want it to fall apart.

It's not gonna fall apart.

Let me give you some pills, okay?

Okay, one drop. That's okay. That's okay.

[Bonnie] The goal is for Diana to come in for feedings…

every 90 minutes.

We have to really make sure that these stops are not…

more than three, four minutes, maybe five.

Because we will get off course.

She looks good. She hasn't…

slowed down at all.

Um, I think the shoulder's really bothering her.

And it doesn't mean she's not gonna just power through it,

'Cause that's exactly what she'll do.

[David] How long have we got 'til the next feed?

We've got about 30 minutes 'Til the next feed, David.

Can't you guys just get it on the power?

What can I do for you, Diana?

[Diana]

Come closer to the boat. Talk to me.

Slowly.

[Bonnie] You're okay.

[inhales and exhales slowly]

That's it. Just like that.

Just like that.

[Diana] I'm thinking my muscles are weak…

Okay. Hey, don't talk. Don't talk.

I'm gonna talk to you, okay? Let's not waste any breath.

You just keep treading water and don't think about swimming…

Right this second, okay? [shivering]

Good job. Good.

Oh, boy.

I don't want anybody else on the boat. Just Michael, okay?

[man] Dr. Michael only!

Dr. Michael only!

[Bonnie] Michael's here.

-[Diana] Michael. -Yeah?

[Diana] I'm really having an asthma attack

I'm having trouble catching my breath for the last two hours.

[Michael] I'll bet, yeah. We're gonna give you this inhaler.

At least four puffs right now.

One, two, three.

[indistinct]

One, two, three.

-She can recover right now, right? -[Michael] oh, yeah.

Okay. Okay.

Whatever caused it, if she's using that inhaler--

Here we go. Here we go.

-[man, indistinct] -Go ahead, Jon.

[Bonnie sighs]

♪♪

[Diana] This is not gonna be easy, I'm not gonna get through it…

Without some real soul searching,

without some real physical hardship.

Just remember, remember:

If the body's hurting and the mind is weak,

that you want to do this.

Instead of going that way, which we would like to go,

we're going this way now which is heading…

East of there or something like that.

The middle of Keys we're heading for now.

We're hoping to try and inch our way across…

and get back.

But we're already lost a lot of way down-current now.

[man] They gotta get a boat.

[Bonnie] She stopped! Steve, please watch.

We've been training together.

I've been with her two years. Two years.

24 hours, 15 hours many times.

12 hours, 11 hours, 10 hours so many times.

She has never had an asthma attack. Never.

My muscles are going without oxygen and they're--

-It's stressful, -I'm going-- listen to me.

The worst thing you can do now is raise your voice, so just--

I can hear you.

You hear me when I yell. You don't have to yell.

She does have allergies, um,

she's, you know, she can…

only take Tylenol, she can't take Aleve or Advil.

[Diana coughing] So that's what she was given.

Um… I don't know.

Relax.

You're good, Diana. Whenever you're ready.

She has energy.

See? She's feeling better. She's feeling better.

[David] You know we're not maintaining a steady speed

I don't know it's just… We're in trouble.

I know she's gonna do it.

And I haven't doubted it for a second.

The asthma's a bitch.

A bear. A bear. Bear.

[man] Yeah, it's forward.

[Diana] I'm trying to move slowly…

-so I can get my composure. -Yeah.

But even slowly I just--

well, this could take forever at this speed.

[man, indistinct]

[David] Right now we're in a bad way.

[man on radio, indistinct]

[David] At every stop, we're going further and further away,

-And the angle is off. -[man] Yeah.

[David] And I can't be the one to tell her that.

[man] We gotta just keep going, keep going until in the end…

it reaches an impossibility.

[woman] Unless it doesn't.

Hey, Diana, I gotta tell you again,

you're doing better than you think you are.

-Right. -Hard to believe. Believe me, you are.

We're looking at it. You're doing better than you think.

I am not steering, I am not steering her right now.

She is steering us. No, that's what we don't want.

Well, that's the only way we can do it.

'Cause she stops every five minutes, and then we drift. Okay.

We never get going. Are you saying let her drift?

She is drifting. We are letting her drift.

That's exactly what we've been doing for the last four hours, yeah.

Five hours, maybe six hours.

All we're doing is drifting with the current.

Okay.

-We are not going anywhere but drifting. -Right.

-Okay. Okay. -This is what she's doing.

[Diana] My lungs are just tight.

[Bonnie] Is there any chance that we could do the backstroke?

-Or would that be awful for your shoulder? -[Diana] Yeah.

[Bonnie] Just for a while. [Diana] It's really bad.

[Bonnie] What about breaststroke.

-Well I'm doing this crazy little… -Yeah, well you know what?

With the breaststroke with the dolphin, I'm not getting anywhere fast.

You don't know that. You're wrong.

But you're being pulled a little bit.

So, it's helpful just to keep moving.

Okay.

If we-- if we manage to go to Key Largo is it a loss?

Or is it just more miles?

-It's just miles away from Largo. -Okay.

Do you remember driving from Key Largo to Key west?

-The worst. -It takes two hours!

-So you're going to try to swim in it? -No.

There's nothing we can do at two miles an hour.

I know that he--

I mean, he's right.

And until she can't do it anymore.

Until she can't do it anymore.

[David] It is your decision though, Diana.

I'm sick of the cold and I-- I don't want to quit, Bonnie.

But I can't make it all night and all day.

I just hope to get real because…

I got a tremendous will, but I'm in very bad shape…

Where just, I just can't--

-I love you. I love you. -It's too far.

It's okay. It's just too far.

[man] You've done everything humanly possible.

-[Groans] I'm sorry. I'm so disappointed. -You did what you did.

[Bonnie] No, nobody's disappointed.

Nobody, nobody, nobody.

[Diana] I made a mistake. I'm gonna be sick.

Okay, okay, okay.

There you go. Stay there.

[Diana] Don't you agree though? -Just relax. Yes.

-Do you agree? It's too much. -Yes! Are you kidding?

You've been sick for 15 hours. It was too much.

Oh, I know I could do it with the right conditions.

No, no, no, no.

-This wasn't it. -Don't go there. This wasn't it.

I don't even have strength to get through the breaststroke.

Okay. Oh, honey. I don't even have it.

I'm so sorry.

-What a shame. -Okay.

[vomiting sounds] okay, okay. There you go.

Good, good.

[groaning]

[vomiting sounds]

Good, good.

Ooh.

Ooh.

Okay.

Okay. Yeah.

She was so ready to go. Done.

She couldn't do four minutes of breaststroke.

[woman] Up the step. Real careful.

Step out. You're coming through.

Yeah, that's nice.

Easy, easy, easy, easy.

Shh, shh.

[groans]

[woman] Let your body rest now.

Let your body rest now.

♪♪

I feel like I had it in the palm of my hand.

I'm proud.

You have to be proud.

[people shouting]

[Diana] This chapter's closed.

There's just-- it's too big.

It's too-- it's mammoth, you know.

But…

to leave it when it can be done, that's-that's gonna be hard.

There's a Twitter here, somebody says,

"So 61-year-old Diana Nyad, quote,

"Only made it halfway from Cuba?

I'm officially ceasing my whining about being old."

[laughter]

[indistinct]

[cheering and clapping]

It's hard for me to reconcile…

that it's still out there and I'm capable of it.

It's hard, but this is my time.

The fairytale was for now.

It was such a great adventure and I wanted to be on that shore.

It's a different message now.

And I just can't see myself…

training and dragging everybody along for another year.

It's like I think I'm going to have to go to my grave…

without swimming from Cuba to Florida.

I think so.

Well, it was intended to be our feel-good story this week,

but it didn't quite turn out that way.

Diana Nyad has abandoned her latest attempt.

A historic effort to be the first to swim from Cuba to Florida…

has ended early.

[Matt] You've been through a kind of a war, and now that you're back,

are you feeling a little lost?

I wouldn't compare my life to someone who's been in real war,

um, just like I never do in reporting sports.

I don't call those football players…

-gladiators on the battlefield. -Right.

But I have been sort of so deeply…

involved in this experience that,

you know, all I knew is to wake up and just get my swim journal…

and write in the journal for the day and get the budget organized.

-Right. -And, you know, call the Cubans again.

You know, something that has to do with the swim.

I'm not sure what my life is outside of it, but I'll find it I guess.

I would suggest having a cup of coffee and watching people walk…

-back and forth for a couple of days. -Oh, Matt.

-You're such a wise soul, aren't you? -Right.

All right, I'll try it.

♪♪

[Diana] I was lost.

I came home and I just was,

I just was, it was kind of like,

you know, I didn't know who I was.

It's easy to do anything with heart.

And when you lose your heart, you can't do anything.

So I think right now I'm sort of healing up my spirit and heart,

more than anything else right now.

♪♪

♪♪

[Bonnie] She's gotta process this, she's gotta mourn this.

This is the death of a real dream.

I mean, it is dead.

She should go through every single…

thought, emotion, everything.

Everything before she gets to…

what she already knows, that it's over.

Okay, guys. Let's go.

You might look at me as a person who is…

very "in the moment" and-and strong.

And I am, I am that person of action and strength.

And on the other hand…

come on. Come on.

There's another part of me that's very fragile.

[clicking tongue]

Come on, Scout.

[Diana] I'm the one who gets up at corporate speeches and says,

"What are you doing with this life of yours?

"Go to bed every night saying, you know,

did you make that day worthwhile?"

And I'm the one who is-is afraid.

Who is that little child…

who's just angry at myself, hard on myself,

punishing on myself about things you have no control over.

I have failed first time out before.

I know that feeling, and I know that feeling of…

regrouping, learning from the experience…

and going back and getting the victory.

Manhattan's a perfect example.

I tried that in late September.

Tides were bad, circumstances weren't perfect,

and I went back on October 6th a couple weeks later.

We reported yesterday on the start of Diana Nyad's…

second attempt to make the 26-mile swim around Manhattan Island.

Well, the 25-year-old graduate student made it and set a record as well.

The question, of course, from the millions…

who go out of their way to avoid swimming in Manhattan Waters is "why"?

She says it's a complex matter involving her deepest emotions.

[Diana] With the Cuba to Florida swim…

okay, I didn't make it twice.

If I finally make it, all of those failures…

will make it all the sweeter in the end.

Everybody's fond of saying to me,

"But I have it on tape. I wrote it down.

You said you would never do this again."

Life isn't fair, and people go through even…

worse than what I'm going through right now…

And, uh, bigger disappointments.

You know, face bigger challenges in the next step.

And so all of the sudden…

I've made a turn over the last couple weeks…

and now I'm in a different reality.

When people say to me, "Hey, at your age…

you went halfway?"

I'm like, well, screw that halfway.

I know I have this in me.

Yeah, I have the tunnel vision, and I have to.

[Bonnie] I feel that she is not allowing herself…

growth, she's not allowing herself to evolve into…

whomever she's going to be because she is stuck.

And it feels a little empty to me.

[Bonnie] What will it be next time?

Because you're dealing with mother nature,

you're dealing with elements that…

Nobody's ever had to really deal with for…

this amount of time, and--

I wasn't even sore when it was over.

It was so beneath what I, what I prepared myself for.

And I just feel so cheated.

The whole thing was, I'm gonna have a relationship next year,

we're gonna do this, da-da, da-da.

Again, she's on hold.

I do believe there's a little bit,

not a death wish, but,

Jesus Christ.

[Bonnie] I could say "Get back to your real life,"

but this has become her real life.

It's gonna be a very difficult transition.

We don't feel the same way right now.

And, you know, I feel her sense of reality's a little distorted…

and mine is, mine is right.

And she feels the same way.

That's right.

[Mark] Thanks for your opinion, but…

-I'm doing it this way. -Yeah.

[Diana] I can't train another year for it.

I can't do it again, but right now…

I'm in incredible shape.

I'm in better shape than when we started the thing.

Do I want to do it? That's got to be first.

Can I do it? Do I have it in me?

Do I want to do it? And I do.

And after that are there, you know,

people out there to support it?

[Bonnie] Diana's non-ability…

to let go of something…

comes from a much deeper place than I can, um, relate to.

I think that once…

any human being has been abused in any way,

there is a way that you try to put armor on.

Some people need to be successful…

in everything they do.

This is who she is, and she doesn't know how…

to give up on anything, whether it's right or wrong.

[in Spanish] It wasn't grey a month ago.

[driver in Spanish] Yes, it was already grey

[in Spanish] Oh, I love you too. Thank you.

[Bonnie] How sweet.

I feel good. I feel very good.

But as we know,

it really doesn't matter how, how I feel right now.

[Bonnie] Is she gonna change as a person…

if she does it? I don't know.

Is she gonna change as a person if she doesn't finish this time?

I don't know. I don't know.

How many times do you get to do something of this big an adventure?

You know, how many times do you get to feel this alive?

If this is what she needs to do,

I, to tell you the truth, I don't know how she got fired up again to do it.

Dream.

-Love you. -All right, baby.

[cheering]

[Boat horns blasting]

She looks good. Very good.

♪♪

♪♪

[Diana] Oh!

Diana?

Intense! Intense! Intense!

Stop.

Stopping. Check the boat.

[Diana] Whoa!

Shit.

-Wow! -Diana?

[Diana groaning]

Diana?

-Was it a jellyfish? -Yes!

-It hurts like crazy! Come on! -Okay! Okay!

-Wow! Wow! Wow! Wow! -Still?

Oh, yeah!

-Okay. -Fire! Fire!

Okay.

[man] Yeah, she's got it all over her.

It just touched me, yeah.

Fire! Fire! Fire! Fire! Fire!

Fire!

[Groaning]

Fire.

Take your time before you swim, Diana.

Catch your breath.

[man] She still has something on her that needs to be wiped off.

Okay, where is it?

[Bonnie] Jesus.

-It's off, Jon. -Yep.

[indistinct]

-Stand by, D. -She's off. She's going.

She's swimming.

Well, I've never seen her react like that.

Do you know what it was?

It fuckin' sucks, whatever it is.

[indistinct]

It fuckin' hurts bad.

[Bonnie] Still? Oh, yeah.

[Jon] Gosh, she's a tough cracker.

-Oh, yeah. -This is fuckin'…

[Bonnie] But you got it by the palm, too.

-Yes, we are sure. -Are you okay? You sure?

[Jon] I couldn't believe how the pain just kept building.

And it just kept building.

And the only way I can really describe it is if somebody…

lowered you as you're alive into a giant bonfire,

and just sat there, and there's absolutely…

nothing that you can do.

And it just got worse and worse and worse.

Oh, my God.

And I was thinking to myself, is she feeling what I'm feeling?

'Cause if she is, how is she in the water swimming right now?

[Bonnie] Stop!

[man] Stopping.

Diana?

[Bonnie] Shit.

She's not swimming. Fuck!

[man] Stopping, D.

Diana?

It's giving me the chills.

Here you go. Yep, okay. Paralyzing my back.

Jon. It's trying to paralyze her.

I'm feeling the same thing. It's giving me the chills.

[Jon] I started fading fast.

I was down to three breaths a minute.

From the waste up I was completely paralyzed.

I was freezing cold, but sweating profusely.

[groaning]

[Jon] Without a shadow of a doubt, what we came across…

is known as the most venomous…

marine species, known as the Box Jellyfish.

[Bonnie] Are you cold?

[shivering] Yeah! Right.

[Jon] They cause respiratory failure,

heart attack and death within two to three minutes.

You're feeling it bad.

My back-- my spine. Okay. Okay.

And my chills!

Turn over. Turn over.

You and Jon are feeling the exact…

same thing at the same time. That's great.

[Jon] I was the medical person up to the 12-mile mark.

I should have never been in the water with her.

[Bonnie] Come on, Diana. You can work on that, okay?

[retching] Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! What was that?

[man] She just almost went in.

How long's this system gonna last? How much?

[man] It could be every 15, 20 minutes depending.

I'm thinking about wearing this. I won't get stung through it.

What do you think? [man] it should protect you.

Slow down, take your time.

Just slow down. Take it easy.

Slow it all down.

See if you can work on that a little bit.

It'll take your mind off everything else too.

Blink your eyes. Okay.

[man] Yep, there you go. You're doing a good job.

Slow it down. There you go.

Can you breathe in through your nose at all?

Not really, so don't worry. It's okay.

♪♪

♪♪

♪♪

[Bonnie] Her breathing right now is okay.

She's got chills and she's shaking quite a bit.

[Diana] I need to be breathing better.

She needs to be breathing much better before she swims,

but she's definitely breathing better.

[man] What is the level of pain right now?

One to ten.

-Five? -Five.

-What was it before? -[Bonnie] But that's everybody else's 8.

It was so, it was so--

was it a 10 before?

-Yes, yes. -Okay.

It was a major 10.

[Bonnie] Okay. Try and catch your breath now.

One more time, when you think you're ready to freestyle,

come over and talk first, okay?

-[Diana] I'm about ready. -Okay.

[people talking, indistinct]

[man] Sun Lover and Becky Bad Girl,

Diana is now swimming again.

[cheering and clapping]

[man] They heard that.

She really pulled herself through that one.

That was unbelievable. Unbelievable.

[Jon] For what I'm going through up here,

that's probably the toughest person I've ever met in my life.

[Bonnie] Diana, slow it down.

[Jon] For her to stay in the water…

And work through this is, uh, absolutely…

beyond incredible.

It's just beyond incredible.

Nobody can cycle through that kind of thing the way that she did.

You had a six-foot-two, 220-pound shark diver…

put him down, and she stayed in the water…

and cycled through it without, you know,

any medication or anything.

So that's pretty huge. That shows how much she wants this.

[man] Johnny, we're back in the groove.

How's our course looking to you at this point?

[Jon] Yeah, pretty good,

We're on zero. Last time there was a correction

for a little bit of drift there wile we were stopped

Copy that, we're on zero. So that didn't kill us.

No, not a whole lot lost.

[man] Okay, thank you, John. Standing by one-eight.

[people] Four…

Five…

Six…

Seven…

Eight…

Nine…

Ten…

Eleven…

Twelve…

♪♪

[clapping and cheering]

-Oh, yeah! -Whoo!

[woman] Good work, Diana!

[Clifton] She's got her stroke back and…

she's making up time and everything, so we're good.

Well done, Diana. So well done.

So well done.

Feeling better. Definitely feeling better.

Got a thumbs up.

[man] Onward!

[clapping and cheering]

[man] Voyager to Sun Lover. We need a statute miles from the marina.

[man] Stand by.

[woman] Four five point four three statute miles.

Roger that.

So we're almost half way?

We have not.

Bonnie, we left Cuba. We've been going straight fucking north.

We haven't had to correct at all.

[Bonnie] Oh, really?

Gets through tonight, we're home.

[man] Dude, I am telling you…

You and I are gonna rock it tonight.

Some time tonight, if she keeps going,

We're gonna see lights down there.

[Bonnie] Really?

[man] When she sees that?

I'm telling you, that's where we want to get.

That's-that's where,

that's where she's gonna kick in that…

Whatever the hell she's got.

Feel okay?

[Diana indistinct]

Once it's gonna get dark, before dark.

Okay?

But the jellyfish come at dusk.

Okay. Then we'll do it at dusk.

All right.

[man] We're gonna see the fuckin' lights. I'm telling you…

-That is gonna be-- -I've seen a lot of sharks.

-Huh? -A shark.

-We saw one. -Three. Three.

[man] If she gets hit by a jellyfish…

Okay, cool. I'm more concerned about that right now than anything.

It was so strong.

You know why it was so strong?

'Cause as you swam you were strong,

and even when you stopped…

You stopped for so fewer minutes.

You stay right on course now.

One goal, the next stop, because that's all…

you want to think about, the next stop, nothing else.

It's gonna be a night, but we'll get through it.

Tomorrow the sun will rise…

with Florida in sight.

[woman] Whoo! Diana!

[man] Onward!

[clapping and cheering]

Here we go!

[clapping and cheering]

[Bonnie] Come on over. Okay, come on over.

Come on over. It's jellyfish!

Come on over. Damn it!

[Diana groans]

Come on over! Come on over! Come on over!

[man] Close your lips.

Close 'em! Close 'em!

Wipe it off! It's up here in my eyes and my face.

Close your eyes. Close your eyes.

Oh, my God, it's everywhere.

Don't touch, Diana. Don't touch.

Don't touch. Don't touch. Don't touch.

Don't let it win. You're gonna win.

Here comes an epi. The pain's unbelievable!

Here you go. There it is.

[indistinct] Okay.

No, I'm gonna do what Steve said. Okay.

I'm gonna get out of it, get out of the water and take care of it.

It's too painful! Oh!

-It's too painful! -Okay, okay. Here we go.

Oh, it's all over the face!

-Okay. -Okay.

Here, we're gonna spin you around.

-[Diana groans] -One, two, three!

Up! Good! Good!

Good! That's it.

We're gonna take her upstairs.

Don't go forward to the boat. Okay. He's not.

Oh, it's so painful! Get the towels! Towels, towels.

-Oh, my God! -[woman] he's got the towel behind you.

-Oh, my God! -[man] just concentrate.

Concentrate. We're gonna win.

There you go. Here you go. Here you go.

That's it. That's it. That's it.

No! Cold! Okay, that's enough water.

Hang on. Okay.

My face is burning.

Oh, it's so painful.

-Oh, my God, it's painful! -Okay.

-Oh, my God! -It's okay. Okay.

Hang on. One, two, three.

Up.

That's it, you guys. That's it.

That's it.

[Diana groans]

Okay, move her back.

Move her back that way.

[indistinct]

You gotta breathe, Diana. You gotta breathe deep in here.

Breathe deep. Okay.

Deep, deep, deep.

Gotta keep breathing, Diana. You gotta keep breathing deep.

-Take deep breaths in. -Deep.

-Diana, in. -[man] can you get an I.V. going?

In. It's a pressure sensitive thing.

[man #2] You don't need it.

Breathe out.

[Bonnie] Blow it out.

Blow it out!

Blow it out!

Blow it out!

[man] Big, deep breath in.

[Bonnie] Blow it out! Blow it out!

Blow it out!

[man] Blow it out. Come on, blow it out.

Hey, Diana!

[Bonnie] Blow it out, now!

There you go.

[Bonnie] Shit.

[man] There you go.

There you go. There you go. Good.

Breathe in!

That's nice. Don't go to sleep.

Big, deep breaths. Don't go to sleep. In.

Blow it out.

In.

Blow it out.

In!

[man] Blow it out. Good.

[man #2] Good, good, good.

Great, that's what we want. Now you're doing it good. Keep it going.

Okay. Right.

Right here?

You gotta keep breathing though. You gotta keep breathing in.

And that's good. That's good.

[woman] We're doing T.T.

[man] I shut it off.

[man #2] You did? Okay, good.

I'm so scared of them. Yeah.

[Bonnie] It's on you.

You got it. Do you want the small one?

-Diana? Okay. -I just can't hear.

That's fine. That's fine. [indistinct]

whatever you need to do, you should do.

Whatever you need to do, you should do.

[crew talking, indistinct]

She can't get up. No, she can't, especially when we start moving.

Right. There's no way.

[Bonnie] If she goes in that water and she gets stung again, we're done.

-[man] yeah, we're fucked. -First and foremost.

-Are we gonna put her back in the water? -She's stable.

-She's stable. -What does that mean?

Her heart rate's good. Her breathing's good.

There's no wheezing.

It's really gonna be up to her.

We're gonna get her back to that position.

Okay?

And then she's gotta make the call.

We're going back.

Going back there? To the latitude/longitude where we got out.

-Yeah. Almost there. -Yes.

The swim went from a continuous swim…

to what's called a staged swim,

which is where the swimmer stops.

Um, We mark the point, the GPS point…

Where they stopped.

Um, and then they can restart…

At that GPS point towards her goal.

We have arrived and, um, we have to, have to keep…

The engines engaged to kind of hold our position.

[man] keep 'em engaged.

Danny was saying the current is starting to rip here a little bit.

[man] what's she doing?

She's getting up. I thought she was dead.

-Come to me. -[Bonnie] this bucket's just--

-step up. -[man] Cindy, grab her.

[indistinct]

[people talking, indistinct]

You want to sit down first, Diana?

[cheering and clapping]

[man] Diana's in the water!

Whoo!

She's something else.

That's just, uh, wow.

That's a great attitude, Diana. Great attitude.

[people] One…

Two…

Three.

Fifty-nine…

Sixty…

Sixty-one…

Sixty-two…

Sixty-three…

Sixty-four…

Sixty-five…

Sixty-six…

Sixty-seven…

[man] We are…

36-and-a-half hours into the swim.

Diana has been stung twice.

We have found that because of that,

she is unable…

to keep up swimming…

more than 40 percent of it per hour.

Because of that,

we are unable to make northing,

uh, on our calculated,

uh, course that we want to go, and we're being swept east,

um, toward the Bahamas.

All right. How are we doing?

-[man] Is that it? -[woman] That's it.

[man] Okay.

[Diana] I'm really desperate in every way.

[Bonnie] I understand, but I don't know that it's possible

that you get too far yourself.

I don't know.

because you're swimming only 40 percent of the time.

so 60 percent of the time we're being pushed into the Bahamas.

Because you're not capable right now of swimming, like you swim.

No. No.

Okay, don't worry. Don't worry.

Don't worry, okay? Don't worry.

All right, slight tug down.

Hang on. There we go. Okay.

[people] twenty-two…

Twenty-three, twenty-four…

Like, her eyes looked a little like bloodshot.

You know what? I should talk to the doc.

Twenty-eight…

Twenty-nine…

Thirty…

Thirty-one…

[Bonnie] I need to talk to you, um,

So…

Thirty-five…

Thirty-six…

Thirty-seven…

Thirty-eight…

Thirty-nine…

Forty…

Forty-one…

Forty-two…

Forty-three…

Forty-four…

Forty-five…

Forty-six…

Eighty-five…

Eighty-six…

She's stroking along.

It's crazy, Jon, what you did. We can't make it too far.

[man] Stop. Watch it, Drew.

[people talking, indistinct]

Diana?

Diana, you need to pull your shirt down.

You guys did a great job.

Thank you.

Thank you.

[Bonnie] I'm here.

-[man] Her shirt's down. -[Bonnie] Okay. Thank you.

I think the writing is on the wall,

but I would like it if Diana got to make the decision.

[whistle blows]

♪♪

What's your belief?

This is my concern.

If you get stung again, it's gonna be bad.

And I do not want, as your friend…

I do not want to see you go through that.

There's no place we can go about 24 hours from now?

No. In the morning? No?

No, not really 24 hours.

What's your opinion?

[Bonnie] There's nobody in the world who could possibly do this,

except you.

But, I watched you almost die last night.

I really did. And I don't think I could do that again.

I hate those fucking Portuguese Man o' War!

This whole thing…

has nothing to do with them!

And it's like they've been the bane of my existence.

They brought me down. They really did.

All this training.

They've brought every major swimmer down…

At least once.

You know, the difference for me though is…

This is it, you know? That's right.

It really is. That's right.

My age and the other stuff I want to do in my life.

Other people may go through a sting,

but they're younger and they're gonna do,

you know, they're gonna do other swims.

[Bonnie] Right.

It's a big dream to let go of.

[Bonnie] You didn't--

do you want to just swim a little…

Yeah. And consider this?

Uh, I think that's a reasonable thing to do as well.

I'm not gonna make it to the Florida shore, am I?

-No. -No.

Can you all hear me?

[everyone] Yeah! Yes! Can you hear me?

Yes!

So…

This has been a long dream of mine.

Thirty-three years.

And this is the end for me.

This is the end of it.

Two, three.

There you go.

[clapping] You did great. You did good.

Whoo!

♪♪

You guys did a great job.

-You did too. -So did you. You're awesome.

-Thank you. -Awesome.

You really are.

Thank you. Thank you.

Thank you. You were great.

Should I let go? No, hold her.

[talking, indistinct]

We just need a…

Sorry.

Stick it through the main opening.

Not only did you go through one attack,

-you went through two attacks. -Yeah.

Most people don't handle one that well at all.

Yeah.

And that's an E.R. Visit, they're there overnight.

They're not back in the water swimming.

[Diana] Oh…

What a way to go.

[clapping and cheering]

Whoo!

Yeah!

[woman] We love you, baby.

We love you. We love you so much.

♪♪

♪♪

♪♪

You know what? It pisses me off.

That-that you would work so hard for something…

and really prepare, you know,

like a real professional, and have this…

be the reason you can't make it?

-I hear what you're saying. -You know?

You know how sad you are and how…

pissed off you are.

It-it-it takes a little bit away…

from the others that were involved in it.

-Yeah, I know. -Thank you.

I-I-I, it takes it away from me a little bit, you know?

I'm not allowed to have my feelings.

-Understand. -Thank you.

♪♪

[Diana] I've spent too much of my life regretting.

Still the victim, still the imprint…

Of all of that childhood on me.

You are a sum, unfortunately…

and fortunately, of all the things…

That have happened to you and that you've been through.

You can't erase what happened to you.

But you've gotta get to a place of that's okay,

that happened, that's not the definition of you.

I think the goal is…

to not look back with regrets anymore.

One more. One more. [chuckles]

That's it. Just one?

[Diana] But I'm really--

[woman] You might want to have your head examined.

[Diana] Not only am I understanding…

of course much better and having empathy…

with what you went through, and you got me through it.

So we got through this…

the best we could, but that's, it's not,

it's not the memory that I want to have.

It's not a marathon swim.

You know?

The-the-the one that I dreamed of…

and trained for and know about, it's not.

Could you change your dream now?

I have lots of dreams and-and this one,

this one morphs, you know.

It changes looks. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Good. Yeah.

But, um, I don't think that,

um, I'm stuck like you think I'm stuck.

To me this is, this third time,

this is very much moving forward and I'm,

I'm different already.

Well, Diana, you have said "One more time" three times.

-Well, no. -Yes.

But now you're saying "One more time."

So I'm not thinking of,

can she, does she really mean one more time?

'Cause it doesn't matter. You mean it right now.

Yeah.

But you might not mean it at the end of a year.

I just hope that I have enough dignity…

and-and maybe…

maturity…

to-to recognize if it, it,

when it really does become enough.

But right now it just doesn't feel like that to me.

Okay.

How could I do it without you?

Yeah, we don't have to have that conversation right now.

[Bonnie] I am afraid that she's gonna die,

and that this is how…

her dream and her passion of her life is gonna end,

that she is really gonna die.

[thunder rumbles]

[man] How many are here.

[woman] She's swimming to the boat.

-Diana! -[shouting]

[Bonnie] Diana! You're okay.

We're gonna do the sane thing,

the quick thing, get you on voyager.

We cannot risk human life.

[thunder rumbles]

It was a beautiful dream.

[man] It still is. It still is.

♪♪

[Diana] Everybody says to me, look, you won already.

You know? You-you showed what you've got inside…

and the world responded.

And they were on your side, and they've let go.

They could care less if you ever do this swim.

But the reason it's so big for me is that I've envisioned it.

This hope is still alive.

And I don't want to be the crazy woman who does it for years…

And years and years, and tries and fails…

And tries and fails and tries and fails.

But I can swim from Cuba to Florida,

and I will swim from Cuba to Florida.

[cheering, clapping] Thank you.

Thank you.

♪♪

[woman] Breaking this morning, victory ahead.

Diana Nyad poised to finish her 103-mile swim.

So many eyes studying that one trip on this labor day.

A dream, really, that was 35 years in the making.

Only a few miles shy of setting a record…

That's eluded her for decades.

[woman] This year she'll wear a new piece of equipment.

[man] A specially designed mask to repel jellyfish.

History being made.

[man] The adrenaline must just be flowing now.

The end is in sight.

We are all looking at the island of Key West.

[woman] If you can only imagine…

what people there on that beach are feeling.

[cheering]

[cheering]

Move back! No! Stop!

[cheering]

[shouting]

[cheering]

[cheering]

Stand back!

[cheering]

♪♪

[Diana] There's such meat for life…

in sticking with things, you know?

And not giving up, and getting to whatever your other shore is.

Get there.

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