The Caribbean Sea is not as cooperative as in days past. The glassy flat conditions have given way to a slight oncoming chop and increasingly large ocean swells. The straight-line shot to Key West has given way to a Gulf Stream push that is sending Nyad out towards the Atlantic Ocean with little hope of […]

It was a whale of a night near the midpoint between Cuba and Florida. Out of nowhere, a gentle pod of 10-15 whales crossed Nyad’s path where the horizon stretched for as far as the eye could see. Swimming laterally to their human colleague, the whales were a pleasant sight. Showing off their majestic girth

“Diana needs to cut across the Gulf Stream. If she doesn’t get across the Gulf Stream last enough, the currents will push her too far east and away fro Florida,” said chief navigator John Bartlett. “She is averaging 1.3 knots per hour, but her stoppage time is more than we calculated. The night is going

The Bahamas are a contemporary gathering point for open water swimmers who have replaced pirates, blockade-runners, rum runners, British loyalists, freed slaves and financiers. These such characters previously gathered on the white-sand beaches since Christopher Columbus first landed there in 1492. Over the past 50 years, the wealthy, aristocrats and movie stars have also gathered…and

Lynne Cox has a book signing in Seattle at the Third Place Books on October 9th and Village Books in Bellingham, Washington. She will be signing her third book, South With The Sun. Her riveting book chronicles north and south pole explorations and the exploits of Roald Amundsen of Sweden in the Northwest Passage. With