Diana Nyad abandons swim from Cuba to Florida - in pictures

Diana Nyad adjusts her swimming cap as protective ointment is applied to her skin before she jumps into the water to start her swim to Florida from Havana, Cuba – her fourth attempt to complete the 103-mile swim, her third without a shark cage Photograph: Ramon Espinosa/AP

Diana Nyad blows a bugle before her departure from the Ernest Hemingway Nautical Club in Havana, Cuba Photograph: Adalberto Roque/AFP/Getty Images

Diana Nyad begins her swim to Florida from the waters off Havana, Cuba Photograph: Ramon Espinosa/AP

Diana Nyad is hydrated by a crew member in the waters between Cuba and the Florida Keys Photograph: Christi Barli/Florida Keys News Bureau/AP

Diana Nyad (in yellow bathing cap) pauses for a rest and hydration with her support crew in the Florida Straits Photograph: Christi Barli/Florida Keys News Bureau/AP

Diana Nyad takes a break after reportedly being stung by a jellyfish. It was jellyfish that ultimately cut short one of Nyad's two attempts at the feat last year, when toxins built up to a dangerous level in her system Photograph: Christi Barli/Florida Keys News Bureau/AFP/Getty Images

Diana Nyad swims in the Florida Straits between Cuba and the Florida Keys Photograph: Florida Keys News Bureau /AP

Diana Nyad after she was pulled out of the water. She had been suffering from swelling to the lips and tongue after she endured two nights of jellyfish swarms, some of them from the potentially deadly box jellyfish Photograph: Christi Barli/Florida Keys News Bureau/AP

Veteran long-distance swimmer Diana Nyad rests after she was pulled out of the water between Cuba and the Florida Keys early on 21 August Photograph: Christi Barli/Florida Keys News Bureau/AP