A 62-year-old woman who was trying to become the first person to swim from Cuba to Florida without a shark cage has abandoned her effort.
Veteran U.S. long distance swimmer Diana Nyad was pulled from the water on Tuesday, after battling jellyfish stings and a storm that forced her off course. Her crew says she was about half-way through the 166-kilometer swim.
Nyad set out from Havana on Saturday in her fourth bid to swim across the Straits of Florida. She had hoped to arrive in Florida on Tuesday, a day before turning 63.
Australian Susan Maroney successfully made the swim in 1997, but she used a shark cage.
Nyad had been using a special device that pulses a mild electrical current to help keep sharks at bay.
She attempted the same swimming feat last year, but was forced to abandon her trip after painful jelly fish stings.