64 year old woman completes first Cuba to Florida swim.

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    Amazing story. If people think some untrained random person can do this unassisted they are idiots. The swim portion of the iron man triathlon is 2.4 miles; this lady did 110.
     
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    Never been done before without a shark cage.
     
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    I'll just wait until the next one. maybe someone will do "the worm" across america.
     
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    What I find cool is that her first attempt was in 1978, and she failed three times before this attempt.

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    She swam around the whole island of Manhattan back in the 70s
    Amen.
     
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