Could a person swim from florida to cuba?

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the big

What is the purpose of this question, may I ask ?

Besides, what for ?

Many people have tried the other direction, but on a raft. As beardo says, there are many sharks

What beardo forgot to mention is that, besides all that, if the Cuban State Security grabs you trying to escape they may sink you, raft and all, or in the best case, throw you in the tank for who knows how long

Oh, dear beardo, thanks for giving an answer.

You know, quite a coincidence. I know a couple of dozen people who were caught trying to escape and in one case, the Cuban State Security sprayed them with drops of lead.
They were lucky nobody was hurt, but they received free hospitality in villa Marista for a long while.

A friend of mine tried to escape with some friends and he also received hospitality in villa Marista
He told me that they had no room service and the food was of very poor quality. No air conditioning either

I know some others as well

Miranda

they'd get eaten...

Elizabeth

?

Maybe you will see people going the other direction like 'the big' said.

tron.quito

Sure.. it's ONLY NINETY MILES (90)... through SHARK FILLED WATERS... so anybody can swim that.... This IS stupid question day... right?

Don Camilo

Do you really believe that if that were possible, would be somebody in cuba, besides the evil brothers ?

BEDLAMB

I personally could not but someone could. In fact a woman very recently swam the Atlantic. I would imagine she didn't do it all at once though.

Here's a link to the atlantic thing http://www.newser.com/story/50216/us-woman-first-to-swim-atlantic.html

And it looks like someone has swum to Cuba http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/9705/12/australian.swimmer/

Angel Of Passion

You could make it... but you would have to be a good swimmer.

The average person would probably fail at that attempt.

â˜†Loveâ˜†

yes its possible. But becareful of sharks!!!!

David G

you could do it it;s only 90 miles

fuzzlestunk

It's 90 miles from Cuba to Key West. Pretty much impossible to swim.

Oh yeah!! I do it all the time

jalady

Not a good idea. No.

John S

nope

Lil' stash

No. Not even micheal phelps could do that. (LOL)

Smiley

Yes, that's how my lawn care worker made it here. ;)

Oh come on...that's not racist! How can it be racist if it's the truth? Except he was going the other way. Dunno why you want to go to Cuba(I secretly wanna go, it's beautiful), send me a postcard!

Tamahome

bleh.always

i think i would die of panicking. im afraid of water though..

stubaby_8

No. A person would become too easily dehydrated. The salt water would suck out all of the water in your body. Also, that's a really long distance to be swimming.

Abby A

an Olympic swimmer maybe. not a normal person.

rainbowzebrassâ™¥

546 miles.
&could yuu make it? hmm. . . yuu tell me. anything's possible ;D.

Nick

wow!
that would take ALOT of endurance.
Im guessing 200-400 miles?
maybe im completely wrong.
lol.

Beardo

It 90 miles, shark-infested, and can be rough water.

Even if you could physically manage the swim, there are other dangers.

If the US coastguard find Cubans in the water, they send them back to Cuba.

PS the big - I know several people who have tried to leave in boats or rafts and were caught and returned - none of them suffered any direct punishment.

Yes. but it would be faster to drive. ...LOL

Seriously....

It has already been done.

90 miles 24 1/2 hours

http://www.fiu.edu/~fcf/austrailian.swimscuba.html

http://edition.cnn.com/WORLD/9705/12/australian.swimmer/

The woman who claimed to have swam the Atlantic turned out to be a fraud.

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tom-blumer/2009/02/11/ap-credits-atlantic-swimmer-2-100-mile-25-day-crossing

kirot234

yes

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