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A decade after swimming nonstop for more than two straight days from Cuba to Florida, Diana Nyad has returned to the Key West beach where she completed her epic journey
KEY WEST, Fla. (AP) A decade after swimming the treacherous passage from Cuba to Key West, Diana Nyad returned Sunday to the beach where she<a class="excerpt-read-more" href="https://wsvn.com/news/local/florida/diana-nyad-marks-anniversary-of-epic-cuba-florida-swim-freeing-rehabilitated-sea-turtle-in-the-keys/">Read More</a>
Nyad and her Cuba swim expedition leader Bonnie Stoll helped return “Rocky,” a 120-pound (54 kilogram) female green sea turtle, to the Atlantic Ocean at Key West’s Smathers Beach as they marked the anniversary with her former support team. On Labor Day 2013, nearly 2,000 people had lined the beach to welcome Nyad as she came ashore after her 111-mile (178-kilometer) odyssey, a nonstop swim lasting 52 hours and 54 minutes across the Florida Straits from Havana.