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trumad

(41,692 posts) Mon Sep 2, 2013, 01:43 PM Sep 2013

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Live feed for Diana Nyad's swim from Cuba to Florida...

She's almost there...

http://www.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/cvplive/cvpstream1.html

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Live feed for Diana Nyad's swim from Cuba to Florida... (Original Post) trumad Sep 2013 OP

Does she really have to keep swimming LWolf Sep 2013 #1

That is your take away from the event? Really... DURHAM D Sep 2013 #3

Of course not. LWolf Sep 2013 #4

Thank you. DURHAM D Sep 2013 #5

That's the point I was about to make. n/t Ms. Toad Sep 2013 #6

She did it! shenmue Sep 2013 #2

LWolf

(46,179 posts)

1. Does she really have to keep swimming

Reply to trumad (Original post)

Mon Sep 2, 2013, 01:50 PM

Sep 2013

when everyone else is standing in waist-deep water? Couldn't she walk the rest of the way?

DURHAM D

(32,611 posts)

3. That is your take away from the event? Really...

Reply to LWolf (Reply #1)

Mon Sep 2, 2013, 02:16 PM

Sep 2013

LWolf

(46,179 posts)

4. Of course not.

Reply to DURHAM D (Reply #3)

Mon Sep 2, 2013, 02:38 PM

Sep 2013

That's just what I'm thinking as I watch the last distance, swimming past the standing people.

It's an honest question, and I'm sure I'm not the only person who watched and wondered. I was thinking that if it were me, the first touch of my foot on sand would have been such a relief.

Do you need my "take away" from the event?

I'm thrilled to see human determination and perseverance in the person of a 64 yo woman on the front page of our collective human conscious today. I wish our media focused more on the positive, amazing things people accomplish.

DURHAM D

(32,611 posts)

5. Thank you.

Reply to LWolf (Reply #4)

Mon Sep 2, 2013, 03:00 PM

Sep 2013

It is actually physically easier to swim than walk it.

Ms. Toad

(34,092 posts)

6. That's the point I was about to make. n/t

Reply to DURHAM D (Reply #5)

Mon Sep 2, 2013, 03:14 PM

Sep 2013

shenmue

(38,506 posts)

2. She did it!

Reply to trumad (Original post)

Mon Sep 2, 2013, 02:02 PM

Sep 2013

Complete!

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