Name: Extreme swimming with the world's most dangerous jellyfish
Uploaded: 2012-01-24T16:23:09Z
Duration: 16 min 40 s
Description: In the 1970s, Diana Nyad set long-distance swim records that are still unbroken. Thirty years later, at 60, she attempted her longest swim yet, from Cuba to Florida. In this funny, powerful talk at TEDMED, she talks about how to prepare mentally to achieve an extreme dream, and asks: What will YOU do with your wild, precious life?

In the 1970s, Diana Nyad set long-distance swim records that are still unbroken. Thirty years later, at 60, she attempted her longest swim yet, from Cuba to Florida. In this funny, powerful talk at TEDMED, she talks about how to prepare mentally to achieve an extreme dream, and asks: What will YOU do with your wild, precious life?

Diana Nyad: Extreme swimming with the world's most dangerous jellyfish

Extreme swimming with the world's most dangerous jellyfish

At 60, facing existential angst, a quest to swim from Cuba to Florida reignites, driven by an old, unfulfilled ambition.

Box jellyfish, the ocean's most venomous creature, thwarted the Cuba-Florida swim, introducing unforeseen agony and peril.

Despite a harrowing defeat by nature's wrath, the resolve to conquer the swim persists, embodying undying hope and tenacity.