Florida Straits swim bid fails

DIANA NYAD, the 61-year-old endurance swimmer, has ended an attempt to swim from Cuba to Florida about halfway into the journey.

Ocean swells, shoulder pain and asthma dogged her before she was finally brought aboard a boat, vomiting. “I am not sad. It was absolutely the right call,” she said.

Nyad, who had said she hoped to bring Cuba and the US closer together through the swim, began her second attempt late on Sunday to make the difficult crossing through the treacherous Florida Straits.