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Penny Palfrey (Penny Palfrey), 49-year-old British-Australian swimmer in the morning on June 29 went to swim from Cuba to Florida without a shark cage.

For protection against predators Palfrey uses equipment that creates an electric field around it. Swimmer hopes to overcome the 165 kilometers of the Straits of Florida in 40-50 hours and become the first woman to swim the Straits without a cage.

Palfrey will accompany the team of 16 people in the same boat. Regular swimmer on the team will receive food and water, but during these snacks Palfrey should not touch the boat.

Palfrey We have three children and two grandchildren. In 2010, she swam across the Straits of Gibraltar three hours and three minutes, setting a new record for women. We swimmer dual nationality: the age of 19, she moved from the UK to Australia.

In 1997, Australian Susie Maroney (Susie Maroney), which at that time was 22 years old, swam across the Straits of Florida in the shark cage. Without the cell tried to swim across the Strait of double American Dine Nayad (Diana Nyad), but her attempts were not crowned uspehom.

She plans to try again in the summer of 2012. In 2011, notes the Australian publication The Age, 62-year-old Nayad swam two-thirds of the way, but she had to stop because of jellyfish stings. The first attempt she made at the age of 28 let.



49-year-old British-Australian swimmer Penny Palfrey (Penny Palfrey) on Sunday, July 1 was forced to prematurely end swim from Cuba to Florida. It is reported by Agence France-Presse. Swimmer withdrew from the race, because she could not cope with a strong current, the report says her team. Penny Palfrey was launched June 29 from the coast of Havana. For more than 40 hours, she swam three-quarters of the way. At the time it was stopped just 27 kilometers south-west of the destination - the city of Key West, Florida.
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