Record-breaker Nyad in midst of 48-hour NYC swim

[October 09, 2013]  NEW YORK (AP) -- The 64-year-old woman who swam from Havana to Miami is churning toward the halfway mark in her marathon Manhattan swim to benefit victims of Superstorm Sandy.

Diana Nyad (NY'-ad) started her 48-hour swim Tuesday morning in a 40-yard pool set up in Herald Square. Her aim is to raise money for people still struggling a year after Sandy.

Just before 3 a.m. Wednesday, Nyad had been in the pool for more than 18 hours and had raised over $54,600.

Last month, the native New Yorker became the first person confirmed to have swum from Cuba to Florida without a shark cage.

She told The Associated Press on Monday that one of her swimming companions in Manhattan will be a dog named Roscoe that survived Sandy's floodwaters.

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