In 2013, on her fifth attempt and at age 64, she succeeded in swimming from Havana, Cuba to Key West, Florida, completing the third known swim crossing of the Florida Straits after Walter Poenisch in 1978, and Susie Maroney in 1997.
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The straight-line distance between North Bimini and the Florida coast is about 60 miles, but Miss Nyad's trainers said that with currents she had to swim farther. She negotiated the powerful Gulf Stream, which frustrated other attempts to swim from the Bahamas to Florida, without difficulty.
The Cuban government allows Americans to visit their country. The restrictions on traveler activities (and where they can spend money) are all US government rules. So, regardless of American regulations, your US passport is valid in Cuba.
Nyad, a long-distance swimmer from Los Angeles, reached Key West on September 2, 2013 nearly 53 hours after leaving Cuba, becoming the first person to swim from Cuba to Florida without a protective cage.