Diana Nyad completed the 110-mile swim from Cuba to Florida on Monday, becoming the first person to do so without a shark cage.
Nyad arrived in Florida just before 2 p.m., it was reported.
Nyad spent the past 51 hours swimming nonstop to reach the other shore.
She left Havana, Cuba, on Saturday.
Nyad arrived at the beach just before 2 p.m. EDT.
As she approached, spectators surrounded her in the water, taking pictures and cheering her on. Once on the beach, she was put on a stretcher and received medical treatment, including an IV. Her lips were swollen.
It was Nyad’s fifth try to complete the approximately 110-mile swim. She tried three times in 2011 and 2012. She had also tried in 1978.
Her last attempt was cut short amid boat trouble, storms, unfavorable currents and jellyfish stings that left her face puffy and swollen.
“I am about to swim my last 2 miles in the ocean,” Nyad told her 35-member team from the water, according to her website. “This is a lifelong dream of mine and I’m very very glad to be with you.”
The Associated Press contributed this this report.
