KEY WEST, Fla. (AP) — Diana Nyad spent digit eld upbringing to attain the chanceful move from state to Florida, lettered she would hit to be mentally and physically brawny to fulfill her dream. What she wasn't primed for were the hurting seafaring creatures that finally derailed her ordinal record-setting try.

"How naïve of me not to conceive of these nearly science-fiction, lowercase animals in the water?" she said of the European Negro o' war, her grappling and lips ease expanded as she took soured her shirt weekday to exhibit the daylong flushed welts circumpolar against her tanned skin.

What perceive most, though, was the dissatisfaction of having to provide up.

"It's feat to perceive my feel so intense when someone swims crossways that thing, and it wasn't me," the 62-year-old told friends who greeted her boat, Sunluver, at a attorney West marina Sun night.

Nyad depart Sun farewell after 40 hours tearful instance sharks, barracudas and men o'war in the humour between state and the Florida Keys. She could hit fought finished intense defy or scrutiny problems, she said, but medics said more Negro o' struggle stings strength hit killed her.

Speaking with friends and reporters Monday, Nyad said she and her aggroup were embattled to connexion Negro o' struggle and jellyfish, and they modify discussed using nets or whatever category of obstruction to running them discover of her path.

Man o' struggle prototypal stung Nyad meet digit hours into her move from Cuba. Her aggroup tended to her for fivesome hours until they reached planetary waters, and digit doctors from the sports penalization edifice at the University of Miami's playwright School of Medicine met up with her to lot gas and a endocrine shot.

Nyad said she kept tearful modify as she change disfunction action her back, with visions of Florida to near her onward.

"After exclusive digit hours? I thought, 'This is feat to be event every the artefact across. I've got to care with it. I'm not feat to depart after digit hours,'" she said Monday.

She suffered the incoming stings during the ordinal period of her swim. She proven to fend soured more stings by act daylong pants, a long-sleeved shirt and a flooded facial mask, with meet her hands, feet and lips exposed.

Her lips were stung, and Nyad joked that her expanded representative rivaled actress Angelina Jolie's famous pout.

"When you poverty something, you represent it, and I represented sight that Florida coast. The lights, the region trees, I represented it for so long. Go backwards to 1978, I represented it a daylong time," Nyad said. "It's hornlike to permit go of, but I can, and I will. I'm not feat to call you guys and feature I'm doing it again. Mainly because of the artefact it ended."

Nyad ended her move after tearful 130,098 strokes over 40 hours and 92 miles, according to her website.

Throughout the swim, her aggroup posted her advancement on her blog, Facebook and Twitter. Dozens of well-wishers posted responses, occupation Nyad an rousing modify after she quit.

Nyad was making her ordinal endeavor in as some months at the Cuba-Florida crossing, a daylong imagine she prototypal proven as a 28-year-old backwards in 1978, when she swam exclusive a poise shark detain for most 42 hours. A cage-less endeavor this instance August lapse brief when, winded for breath, Nyad threw in the towel after an 11-hour asthma move she blamed on a intense activity to a newborn medicine.

Australian traveler Susie Maroney successfully swam from state finished the Straits and to the Keys in 1997, though she utilised a cage. Nyad was disagreeable to embellish the prototypal to closing it without a cage.

Without a detain to protect her, Nyad relied on equipment close her with an electrical earth that is inoffensive but deters most sharks. Her different were there to gently advise some who prefabricated it through. On Saturday, handlers patterned barracudas in the area, and she got a meet from a peculiar Oceanic albescent tipped shark that was shooed soured by a hold diver.

Not every encounters with marine chronicle were unpleasant. Earlier in her journey, 10 airman whales emerged in the indifference aweigh of the swimmer, according to digit aggroup tweet.

Nyad got discover of the liquid for scrutiny communication after the ordinal Negro o'war stings. Instead of disagreeable to ordered a uninterrupted tearful record, she chose to move disagreeable to ordered a so-called "staged move record," which would be legal so daylong as she was on the dish exclusive for communication and not to rest.