Blue IQ Webinar - NYAD
The Blue IQ Webinar - NYAD explains what was involved in the film biopic NYAD and what was involved in Diana Nyad's cross-border attempts to swim 110 miles from Havana, Cuba to Key West, Florida, from the activities of navigator John Bartlett and marine scientist Dr. Angel Yanagihara to coach Bonnie Stoll and escort pilot Dee Brady.
Contents
Content
After participating in a NYAD Watch Party, viewers can register and participate in a Blue IQ Webinar that offers the following content:
- learn what was behind Diana's dream that she re-committed herself to at the age of 60
- learn how Diana trained in the pool and in Mexican and Caribbean waters
- learn how Diana recruited a large team of volunteers to guide her 110 miles from Havana, Cuba to Key West, Florida
- learn how she ultimately made her dream a reality with innovative equipment and incredible resiliency
- learn how Annette Bening trained to portray the real-life International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame marathon swimmer
- learn how Jodie Foster captured the essence of Bonnie Stoll's character
- learn how Rhys Ifans captured the essence of John Bartlett's character
- learn about the work of Dr. Angel Yanagihara, the world's foremost expert on box jellyfish
- learn how Diana's face mask and stinger suit were envisioned, needed, tested, and use during her crossing
- learn about the actions and plans of the shark divers, led by Luke Tipple, in protecting Diana from sharks
- ask any and all questions about Diana's failures in 1978, 2011, and 2012 and about different scenes in the movie
- learn what the sport of open water swimming is all about
- learn how to get involved and make your own dreams a reality, either in the open water or on dryland
NYAD, Movie Trailer
The Science of Diana Nyad's Swim from Cuba to Florida
The Science of Diana Nyad's Swim from Cuba to Florida, a documentary film by Thiago Da Costa and Tim Wheeler about Diana Nyad's swim from Havana, Cuba to Key West, Florida
Open Water Swimming
Open water swimming is a sport for recreation, pleasure, fitness, and competition in oceans, seas, lakes, rivers, and bays. It exploded in popularity with the inclusion of a 10 kilometer marathon swim at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games and then again during the COVID pandemic when pools closed. The sport includes ice swimming, stage swimming, mass participation swims, para swimming, and professional races around the world.
Blue IQ
Blue IQ is an awareness and understanding of what to do and not to do when in, around, under and on open bodies of water due to tides, currents, waves, winds, storms of any strength or size, water temperatures, and atmospheric conditions.
Blue IQ is an understanding, appreciation, and caring for the marine environment of Planet Earth. Blue IQ includes a passion for improving the marine environment and its inhabitants for ourselves and future generations to enjoy.
Blue IQ includes knowledge of what happens, what lives, what is created - either directly or indirectly by Mother Nature or humans - below, in, near, and on the water whether it is an ocean, sea, lake, river, bay, estuary, fjord, loch, or channel.
Blue IQ includes the ability to swim, to teach others how to swim, to be able to save another human of any age.
