US swimmer Diana Nyad waves after starting her fifth attempt to swim between Cuba and Florida on Aug 31. -- EPA/Ernesto Mastrascusa
Long-distance swimmer completes 177km journey through treacherous waters on fifth attempt.
On her fifth attempt spanning 35 years and involving many agonising interactions with jellyfish, long-distance swimmer Diana Nyad finally achieved her lifetime ambition to enter the record books as the first person to swim from Cuba to Florida (in the United States) without a shark cage.
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