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June 30th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
“It’s all coming together, and so exciting to finally get to this point
where we can get started.”
A member of Mrs Palfrey’s crew was tweeting to fans, while a webpage updated
her location every 10 minutes or so based on
data from a GPS device worn by the swimmer. The site showed her
making steady northward progress through the Straits of Florida, where the
Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean meet.
“Swimming strong. Great conditions. Some jellies, but not bad,” read
one tweet.
Late on Friday evening, Mrs Palfrey was about 30 miles into the journey.
“She is swimming strong and all is going well. Next update in the morning,”
said Andrea Woodburn, who was managing Mrs Palfrey’s Twitter and Facebook
accounts.
Mrs Palfrey will have to fight through physical and mental fatigue while
fending off dehydration, hypothermia and dangerous marine life. She
estimates that it will take 40 to 50 hours to make the crossing, and the
currents will determine where in Florida she comes onshore.
Australian Susie Maroney made the crossing in 1997 at age 22, but with a shark
cage. American Diana Nyad made two unsuccessful cageless attempts last year
on either side of her 62nd birthday, but had to call them off due to a
debilitating asthma attack and painful Portuguese man o’ war stings. She
plans to try again this summer.
Mrs Palfrey was wearing a regular sporting swimsuit instead of a wetsuit, and
planned to put on a porous, non-buoyant Lycra bodysuit that provides cover
down to the wrists and ankles whenever jellyfish may be a threat.
That’s particularly the case at night, according to her support team of more
than a dozen navigators, handlers and medical personnel who were escorting
her on the 44-foot catamaran Sealuver.
Mrs Palfrey is no stranger to jellyfish stings, which forced her to abort two
past swims in Hawaii.
A 20-year veteran of distance swimming, her personal best came last year when
she completed 67 miles between Little Cayman and Grand Cayman islands.
At a news conference on Thursday, Mrs Palfrey said she swam competitively in
her youth but only discovered ultra-long-distance swimming later in life.
“I spent my teenage years swimming and studying, and then I’ve spent a
lot of time raising my family and supporting my husband’s business,”
she said. “And now I feel that it’s my window in life to do something
that I love to do. I don’t believe that I can do it much later in life so
this is my opportunity now. ”
On Friday morning she was upbeat and focused on the task at hand as she
prepared to set off from the Hemingway Marina in western Havana.
Asked about the first thing she planned to do on arrival in Florida, she
laughed and said, “get out of the water.”
“Beautiful sea, beautiful sunrise. It’s a lovely morning in Cuba,”
Mrs Palfrey said. “Thanks. I’m gonna get started.”
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