Update: Swimmer Diana Nyad Going 'Strong' - World News - ABC News ...

Adalberto Roque/AFP/Getty Images)(HAVANA) -- According to Diana Nyad's Twitter account Monday, the 61-year-old long-distance swimmer is still going "strong" as she tries to swim from Havana, Cuba, to Key West despite the threat of sharks and the overall exhaustion that comes with traveling 103 miles in the ocean.

"If I go unconscious, that's one thing," one tweet read at 12:13 p.m. ET. "But no one is going to make me get out of the water; that will never happen."

On Sunday, at the Hemingway Marina in Havana, before starting the nearly 60-hour journey, the endurance swimmer played "Reveille" on a bugle, thanked those who had come to cheer her on and then entered the water wearing a black swimsuit and blue swim cap.

"The adrenaline's flowing now," Nyad said, looking out at the water. "I think this is my day."

Last month, Nyad told ABC News that an approaching birthday had sparked a desire to attempt a feat she had failed to complete when she was 28 years old.

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