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Susan Jean Maroney OAM (born 15 November 1974) is an Australian former marathon swimmer. [1] In 1997, aged 22, Maroney was the first woman and second person to swim the 180 km (110 mi) Florida Straits from Cuba to the United States with a shark cage. In 1998 she swam a record 197 km (122 mi) from Mexico to Cuba, covering the longest distance at ...
Nyad’s record-setting swims began in the 1970s, gaining her national attention with spots on Saturday Night Live and The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. In 1975, she broke the 45-year-old ...
Nyad was born in New York City on August 22, 1949, to Lucy Winslow Curtis (1925–2007) [10] and stockbroker William L. Sneed Jr. Her mother was a great-granddaughter of Charlotte N. Winslow, the inventor of Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup, a popular morphine-based medicine for children's teething pain that was manufactured from 1849 until the 1930s. [11]
The swim across the strait was performed by Australian Susie Maroney (with Shark cage diving) in 1997 and American Diana Nyad (without shark cage) in 2013. [14] Nyad, who was 64 years old at the time of the attempt, took 52 hours and 54 minutes to cover the 106 miles (171 km) between Havana and Key West [15] .
In fact, Nyad's swim was supported by a fleet of five vessels, with a crew of more than 40 people, including shark and jellyfish experts, medical personnel and a social media team.
Key West is the usual endpoint for marathon swims from Cuba, including Diana Nyad's 2013 swim [33] [34] and Susie Maroney's 1997 swim from within a shark cage. [35]
During a recent cage diving trip in Guadalupe Island, Mexico, the father of two recorded a video of a great white shark breaking through the side of one of his fellow diver's cages -- while the ...
The first attempt to cross the channel with no artificial aid was made by the 23 year old J. B. Johnson on 30 August 1872. [3] Johnson hired a brass band in Dover to hype up his attempt, and entertained the crowd for three hours at Dover before diving in and starting his swim.