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Wiuliicbil.iv, 16.1978 The Miami News 3A Double Eagle II hoping to reach Europe tomorrow Each in her own way took on the sea and lost AimmjIrM Prtu She, too, was bothered by nausea and jellyfish 0, stings, but stroked smoothly to within 18 miles of the Florida coast by yesterday afternoon. Then, just as tory sepmed certain, the current began pulling her north. The land curved westward, so the gap from her; to the shore was widening. She called It quits about 3- p.m. She was 32 hours and more than 100 miles from, her starting point.

Nyad had said frankly all along that she was ming for money. She retained an agent, sold rights to- news organizations and signed sponsorship deals with I makers of toothpaste and bottled water. Her entourage at sea included trainers, a helicopter supply service and a $53,000 shark built as part of a $134,000 budget. Taylor emerged from obscurity. She had solid ere-J dentials in marathon swimming, including two success! ful swims across the English Channel, but she received only sparse publicity before the swim.

She had a pair, of support boats and two men on puddleboards to shot)' away sharks. 1 Nyad met reporters and cameramen at poolslde in.j Havana before her swim. Taylor prayed alon. In her, room before leaving Blminl and recited rosaries for. herself and Nyad.

She hud once studied to become nun, stopping just before final vows. Both women swam well over 60 miles, the Nyad said is recognized by marathon swimmers as record. But whether either set a record Is unclear. Nyad said she followed rules of the International Marathon Association. But, she said, she was not in a thon race; therefore, no record.

BEDFORD, Mass. With two-thirds of their trip behind them, the crew of the silver and black Double Eagle II Inched closer to Europe today and their staff on the ground began talking of a landing tomorrow to complete the first manned balloon crossing of the ocean. Spokesman David McClure, saying, "Everybody is In good condition," estimated early today the helium-filled craft was 450 miles west of Ireland. McClure said it was uncertain where the balloon would land if the crossing succeeds. "It could be Ire land," he said.

"Or It could be England or France. We're just not sure. The course is fluid. They have to follow the weather and the wind." McClure said the balloon was moving about 35 mph at an altitude of 20,000 feet. The balloon encountered North Atlantic showers yesterday, the first inclement weather of the trip, but the balloonlsts were prepared for it.

They have a portable heater In the gondola and were bundled warmly in underwear purchased specially for the trip. The crewmen reported in a radio call yesterday that their spirits were high and all equipment was function ing perfectly, spokeswoman Sue Bernard said. The balloonlsts, Ben Abruzzo, 48, Maxie Anderson, 44, and Larry Newman, 31, all of Albuquerque, N.M., lifted off late Friday from Presque Isle, Maine. Two of the pilots, Abruzzo and Anderson, traveled 2,950 miles In 66 hours In an attempt last year to cross the Atlantic in Double Eagle I. It was forced to ditch five miles off the coast of Ireland.

In almost every way they seemed oceans apart one a gabby extrovert who unabashedly hustled sponsor money and publicity, the other a devout woman who walked into the surf with little more than determination and a soft prayer. But In the end, Diana Nyad and Stella Taylor shared a common destiny. Each challenged the ocean, and each lost. It was Nyad, 28, who first gave up weeping, swollen and screaming at her trainers yesterday morning as they insisted she abandon the 103-mile crossing from Cuba to the Florida Keys. She had covered more than 70 miles in 41 hours 49 minutes since Sunday afternoon, but was pushed off course by winds and hadn't made it halfway to her targeted landing.

"I can't quit now," she begged from the water Inside her heavy mesh anti-shark cage. "You don't understand." She had overcome violent nausea, stings of poisonous Jellyfish, and terrible swelling of the lips and tongue caused by salt water. She pleaded to swim another 20 hours. Another 30. Navigator Rich du Moulin shook his head.

"The wind just pushed us too far west," he said. When du Moulin patiently repeated it was useless to go on, she wept. Taylor, 46, had been swimming strongly since leaving Gun Cay in the Bahamas Monday morning. She had a brush with a shark, which her attendants shot to death, but pressed on with a song. "There's nothing in the ocean that can hurt me," she sang.

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