diana s condition is not improving. is it your lungs? dr. broder has to do something drastic. he grabs his stethoscope michael s coming out. and plunges into the water. first he tries the inhaler again. and then he returns to the boat and rigs this oxygen tank. he scrjumps back into the water desperate to get diana some air. i m hyperventilating all the time. i bet you ve never seen an e.r. advice the livisit like th. it doesn t seem to make much difference. every few strokes now she stops and she gasps for air. despite it all, somehow she keeps on swimming. diane nyad s body is failing her and it s her will and that dream that has taken over. pressing on through sunset, past the 24-hour mark, and into the
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september 2013, havana, cuba. i don t want to be timid. i don t want to go home and say, well, i tried that cuba thing so many times but it was just too tough for me. i want to be in the ring, fail or not fail and be failed and go for it. diane nyad said she s making her final attempt, succeed or fail. there s a fine line between having the grace to see that things are bigger than you are and to let your ego go. and there s another edge over that fine line where you are don t want to ever, ever give up. and i m still at that place. [ cheers and applause ] [ speaking foreign language ] she plunges into the water. again bonnie is at her side.
and there is this. the only thing you could probably die from are the box jelly fish. diana wears this mask to keep deadly box jelly fish from stinging her face and ending her swim like they have done before. it makes me slower, makes me more tired. it is claustrophobic. it slows her down yet she is able to wear it through the entire first night. 24 hours have now passed. this time there are no injuries, no creatures, no weather. this time just miles passing and momentum growing. by hour 36, diana has gone further than anyone before her. diane nyad, the fifth time could be a charm. after trying for 35 years. by mid afternoon on monday, september 2nd, she can see key west. and the crowds can see her coming. [ cheers ] a crush of fans, a few last
diane nyad, endurance swimmer and record holding. it seemed almost like a dream to me but now it s real. from the first strokes to the dramatic finish. five attempts, four failures, one extreme dream. for diane nyad, it all started four years ago with a birthday, a big birthday. diana was about to turn 60 years old. i was driving in my car telling myself you better get with these life lessons, you can t go back, you better just seize the day, go forward. 60 isn t old. was looking at the cars in the rear view mirror and i caught a sight of my eyes for a second and thought but wait a second, maybe i could go back. maybe that would be the event that would make me feel strong and powerful again, would define me again. what once defined diana was