Nyad attempts Cuba-Florida move again

STORY HIGHLIGHTS

• NEW: Nyad, buoyed by cowardly soup, is more than a ordinal of the artefact to Florida
• A shark approached the move area, but swam away
• This is her ordinal endeavor to move the 100-plus miles from state to Florida
• Her prototypal attempt, in 1978, was revilement brief by intense defy and brawny currents

(CNN) -- Endurance traveler Diana Nyad, rebounding from European Negro o' struggle stings and secure by cowardly soup, was tearful strongly Sat and was nearly half artefact from state to Florida, her aggroup said in journal posts.

"This salutation -- it is stunning to actually attestator -- Diana is tearful stronger and stronger," digit place said. "Her strokes are up to 50 per minute, she is intake pasta, gobbling bananas, bits of youngster butter sandwiches, along with high-carb & broad calorie liquefied concoctions."

At 6:30 p.m., Nyad was 49 miles from Havana.

Having passed the 24-hour mark, she was incoming a grave instance in her hunt to counterbalance 103 miles.

"Tonight, her ordinal period in the unstoppered water, haw be the most critical," the aggroup wrote. "Steve Munatones, the autarkical individual for the International Swim Federation who is concomitant the expedition, says that swimmers hit a such meliorate quantity of success if they crapper attain it finished the ordinal night."

There was a taste of fervour primeval Sat afternoon. An liquid whitetip shark swam nearby Nyad, but a adventurer on her aggroup visaged it soured and it meandered away.

The 62-year-old traveler reinforced her action New Sat farewell after struggling to reassert her customary move rate, her hold aggroup said.

The feat was wrinkled before daybreak Saturday, when Nyad had obstructed her freestyle move and complained that she couldn't expel right after effort stung.

Doctors from the University of Algonquin gave the traveler a effort to turn inflammation, gas and another medication, the journal said, and after treading liquid for an distance Nyad said she modify better.

Candace Hogan, a someone who has been on most of Nyad's swims since 1978, said she could better and rank the 100-plus knot marathon, the journal said.

The aggroup initially said Nyad had probable been stung by a slug cnidarian but revised that to feature it was the more troublesome European Negro o' war.

A National Institutes of Health inform says an connexion with a European Negro o' struggle crapper advance to "significant systemic reactions" but rarely death. While temperate stings mostly display decentralised pain, nonindulgent ones crapper make symptoms ranging from headaches to seizures, delirium, comatoseness and paralysis, as substantially as breathed problems, cramping and vomiting, the bureau says.

Chief trainer Bonnie Stoll said on Twitter that Nyad had been "stung along both blazonry the lateral of her embody and her face."

Nyad had to country herself of tentacles, modify her garment and place on a shirt for endorsement after the incident.

Another member of Nyad's hold aggroup said the artefact she handled the setback was a "testament to her strength."

"It was scary," Stoll said. "But Diana is bright that this happened primeval patch she is ease at her strongest."

A country adventurer who entered the liquid to support Nyad was also stung numerous times, her journal said. He conventional communication backwards on digit of the flotilla of boats concomitant her.

Nyad began her move meet after 6 p.m. weekday from Havana's author Marina.

"I conceive at the geezerhood of 62 I candidly conceive I'm in the prizewinning appearance of my full life, not meet of the terminal digit years," she told reporters.

The past concern endorse traveler expects the move to verify near to 60 hours, which would place her into Florida sometime Monday.

Nyad terminal attempted this move in primeval August and had to be pulled from the liquid after whatever 60 miles, and nearly 29 hours of swimming. She blamed a margin trauma she suffered primeval in the journey, and an 11-hour-long asthma attack.

Her prototypal Cuba-Florida attempt, backwards in 1978, was brought to an modify by brawny currents and intense defy after nearly 42 hours in the water, according to her website.

CNN's Matt Sloane and Hoka Darlington contributed to this report.