I've never been in any pain, ever, like that in my whole life. Now it's set me so far back, I just don't' have the lung capacity to swim the way I can.

" She was scheduled to make the swim in August/September 2010 but bad weather forced her to cancel; Diana Nyad then planned to do the swim in July 2011. Nyad was inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame in 2003. " Nyad is openly lesbian.

She broke numerous world records including the 45-year-old mark for circling Manhattan Island (7 hrs 57 min) in 1975. In 2012 Diana Nyad was the subject of the short documentary "Diana" by the digital channel WIGS.