Topic: Florida Straits

Veteran U.S. swimmer starts Cuba-Florida trek

HAVANA (Reuters) - U.S. long-distance swimmer Diana Nyad jumped feet first into Cuba's azure waters on Friday in her latest attempt to become the first person to swim from the communist island to Florida without a shark cage.Nyad, 62, tried ...

Veteran U.S. swimmer to try Cuba-Florida trek again

HAVANA (Reuters) - U.S. long-distance swimmer Diana Nyad said she would try again on Friday to become the first person to swim from Cuba to Florida without a shark cage after she failed in an attempt last month.Nyad, 62, planned to ...

American to attempt 60-hour Cuba-to-Florida swim

HAVANA (Reuters) - Veteran long-distance swimmer Diana Nyad will take on time and Mother Nature when she jumps into the Florida Straits on Sunday to begin what would be a world record swim from Cuba to Florida.The 61-year-old American tried the grueling ...

Scientists Envision Devastation for Region

The urgent question along the polluted Gulf of Mexico: Executives from oil giant BP and other energy companies, meanwhile, shared their own worst-case scenario in a Capitol Hill meeting with lawmakers, saying that if they fail to close the well, the spill ...

Heading Offshore

I recently found myself at an impromptu dinner in a restaurant in Beaufort, North Carolina, with eight other skippers who were bringing their powerboats from various East Coast ports to points south. Much of the travel occurs during the spring and fall ...

The Forgotten Victims of Communism

From the Soviet Gulags, to China's Tiananmen Square, to North Korea, to the tiny island of Cuba and other places in-between, 100 million men, women and children around the world have been victimized by communist thugs. The news media is all ...

Great Bahama Bank

Great Bahama Bank, large shoal off The Bahamas, separated from Little Bahama Bank (north) by Northwest Providence Channel. Its shallow waters extend southeast from Miami, across the Straits of Florida, in a broad curve about 330 miles (530 km) long, between Cuba ...