Sixty-four-year-old marathon swimmer Diana Nyad attempts to become the first person ever to swim from Cuba to Florida.
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00:00 Listen to this.
00:01 Tell me, what is it you plan to do
00:03 with your one wild and precious life?
00:06 Don't you want to be fully awake?
00:08 Your soul ignited by a purpose.
00:11 Oh, God.
00:12 I'm serious.
00:13 Not again.
00:14 Diana Nyack, world champion marathon swimmer.
00:20 The swim I want to do is 60 hours.
00:22 That's Cuba to Florida.
00:23 Absolutely not. No, no, no, no.
00:26 That's insane, Diana.
00:27 You tried that when you were 28
00:28 and you did not make it when you were 28.
00:30 You're 60.
00:31 I don't believe in imposed limitations.
00:33 The only one who gets to decide if I'm through is me.
00:36 Okay, just a little swim.
00:45 It's 100 miles
00:52 or 60 hours of constant swimming.
00:58 But what I'm most afraid of is sharks
01:01 and men of war.
01:03 I just know I can do it
01:05 and I couldn't do it without you.
01:06 All right, okay.
01:08 What you want to do has never been done.
01:15 I'm especially not for a woman.
01:17 Especially not for someone your age.
01:19 Get her out!
01:25 Get her out!
01:27 You gotta breathe.
01:28 Diana, breathe.
01:29 Yeah.
01:30 Four tries and four failures.
01:33 You really don't get it, do you?
01:35 You don't even think of me.
01:36 Of course I think about you.
01:38 I watched you die.
01:39 But this isn't about you, okay?
01:42 This is about me for once.
01:44 Imagine knowing you could do something
01:48 that no one else could do.
01:50 I think we have a window.
01:53 Diana Nyad is back.
01:55 You gotta live!
01:56 I know the world wants me to shut my mouth
02:00 and sit down and wait to die,
02:03 but I can't.
02:04 You are a force.
02:09 Diana, you got this!
02:13 There's no one more Nyad than you.
02:19 [music]
02:22 Everybody's gotta live.
02:25 [music]
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