Diana Nyad

Jul 18, 2024 | nybooks.com | Diana Nyad |Isabella Hammad |Gregg Hecimovich |Federico Finchelstein

Crossing to Safety Diana Nyad has an astonishing ability to do unfathomably difficult, even terrifying athletic feats, and, like many athletes, she did them in the aftermath of abuse.

Aug 23, 2023 | prensalibre.com | Diana Nyad

Por un momento, mientras leía las noticias sobre la devastadora ola de calor mundial de este verano, me costó aceptar que nuestra crisis climática se hubiera convertido ya en algo tan catastrófico. Las tragedias en Grecia. Las altas temperaturas históricas e incesantes que atravesaron durante todo un mes amplios corredores de Estados Unidos. Estos sucesos emergentes pronostican que es probable que nada de esto sea una aberración.

Aug 18, 2023 | startribune.com | Diana Nyad

Opinion editor's note: Star Tribune Opinion publishes a mix of national and local commentaries online and in print each day. To contribute, click here. ••• For a moment, as I followed the stories of this summer's devastating global heat wave, I found it hard to accept that our climate crisis has already become this catastrophic. The tragedies in Greece. The unrelenting, monthlong, historic high temperatures through wide corridors of the United States.

Aug 14, 2023 | nytimes.com | Diana Nyad

Opinion|What It’s Like to Swim in an Ocean That’s 100 Degreeshttps://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/14/opinion/ocean-temperature-climate-change.htmlGuest EssayAug. 14, 2023, 5:00 a.m. ETCredit...Hassan Ammar/Associated PressBy Diana NyadMs. Nyad grew up in Florida, swimming year-round. In 2013, at age 64, she became the first person to swim from Cuba to Florida without a shark cage.

Feb 21, 2023 | medium.com | Diana Nyad

These are the words I said to my mother each night when she would tuck me in for sleep. First she would say to me "Dors Bien Cherie" (sleep well darling) and then I would say "Dors Bien Maman" (sleep well Mommy). My mother wasn't born French, but French was her mother language. Lucy Winslow Curtis was born in New York City in 1925. Only two months old, her elderly father died and her very young mother evidently didn't want to be burdened with a baby.