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HAVANA — American endurance swimmer Diana Nyad began her second attempt in as many months to traverse the 103 miles of sea between Cuba and Florida, waving goodbye to well-wishers before jumping feet first into the still water at a Havana marina, then stroking toward the horizon.
The 62-year-old Los Angeles woman hoped to break her own world record for open- water swimming without a shark cage that she set in 1979 when she stroked from the Bahamas to Florida.
Her last attempt at the Cuba-to-Florida crossing failed Aug. 9 due to a crippling asthma attack that forced her gasping from the water after 29 hours.
