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Lifestyle,nightlifeDiana Nyad Hot Night SwimSuitExtreme swimmer and KCRW host Diana Nyad is trying again tonight to swim from Havana to the coast of Florida. She got in the sea and pushed off about 3:05 our time. In this video, Nyad talks about why she's going again so soon after having to quit 29 hours into her last attempt. SourceAmerican endurance swimmer Diana Nyad began her second attempt in as many months to traverse the 103 miles of sea between Cuba and Florida, waving goodbye to well-wishers before jumping feet first into the still water at a Havana marina, then stroking toward the horizon.The 62-year-old Los Angeles woman hoped to break her own world record for open-water swimming without a shark cage that she set in 1979 when she stroked from the Bahamas to Florida.Her last attempt at the Cuba-to-Florida crossing failed Aug. 9 due to a crippling asthma attack that forced her gasping from the water after 29 hours.Nyad to make 2nd Havana-Fla. swim attemptVideo: Nyad ends swim from Cuba to Fla. after 29 hoursDiana Nyad's marathon swim: Inspiration for aging athletes?Nyad insisted that this time around she was ready to brave the choppy seas, schools of jellyfish and limits of human exhaustion to accomplish her lifelong dream.As darkness fell, about an hour and a half into the swim, Nyad's team sent a Twitter message that she was "going strong."A later message relayed news of a first, stinging setback."Diana has been stung by what we believe is a moon jelly. She is trying to clear herself of tentacles and continue the swim," it read.Just before she set off from Hemingway Marina on Friday evening, assistants smeared grease on her shoulders to prevent chafing during the planned 60-hour journey. She pumped her fists in the air as her support team blew horns and cheered from waiting boats."I feel good. I feel very good," Nyad said. "But as you know, it really doesn't matter how I feel right now."She acknowledged being a little more subdued than the last time she departed from this same marina."Not that I was ever cocky, but having been through this now and be Source