When I walk up on that shore in Florida, I want millions of those AARP sisters and brothers to look at me and say, 'I'm going to go write that novel I thought it was too late to do. I'm going to go work in Africa on that farm that those people need help at. I'm going to adopt a child. It's not too late, I can still live my dreams.'

" She was scheduled to make the swim in August/September 2010 but bad weather forced her to cancel; Diana Nyad then planned to do the swim in July 2011. Nyad was inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame in 2003. " Nyad is openly lesbian.

She broke numerous world records including the 45-year-old mark for circling Manhattan Island (7 hrs 57 min) in 1975. In 2012 Diana Nyad was the subject of the short documentary "Diana" by the digital channel WIGS.