Diana Nyad

He literally looked you in the eye, and it was interviewing you rather than looking past you at the teleprompter to see how his tie looked.

Yeah, no, it's a fair question.

I...

Went back twice.

After not making it in 78, I went back twice.

And by the way, you know, we mentioned training before.

Each time you go back, you're training for another full year.

I mean, this is just, it's your entire life.

I went back twice, and one time it was weather.

The wind blew out of the east for 91 days.

You want to do that swim in the summer because you're going to lose a lot of weight.

And the water, you want it to be as warm as possible so that you can keep your metabolic rate going.

How warm is it?

At its warmest.

It's over 80 degrees, which is warm.

If you were on vacation, you'd say, oh, it's a little too hot.

Your body temperature starts to go toward the temperature of what you're immersed in.

So if you're immersed in 80 degrees, that feels very warm when you're strong and you've got lots of energy and you're fit.

And then two days later, when you've lost a lot of tissue and you're on breathing fumes and you actually, in 80 degree water, you can feel cold if you're in there long enough.

So why didn't you reattempt?