
John Bartlett Unexpectedly Passes Away
John Bartlett, the chief navigator for Diana Nyad’s Cuba-to-Florida attempts and crossing of 2013, unexpectedly and shockingly passed away 2 days ago. Bartlett took his role in planning, researching and charting Nyad’s course extraordinarily seriously. He spent countless hours comparing information and forecasts from oceanographers and meteorologists with the actual conditions that he observed while…