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  1. Diana Nyad Gets Stung by a Box Jellyfish

    February 9, 2014 by jarrattt@uoregon.edu

    I had a shift at the reception desk  at the NWFC yesterday, which is to say that I had 8 hours to catch up on some of the New Yorker I have been neglecting due to school. One of the articles I read was about Diana Nyad and her various attempts to swim from Cuba to Florida. One some of these attempts, including her final one, her nephew was filming a documentary about her. At one point he captured the moment when she got stung by a box jellyfish.

    This video almost feels like an example of reporting about someone without interviewing them. After Diana got stung an EMT jumped in to help her. Unfortunately, he was also stung and jumped back out. We see Diana screaming and obviously in pain, so the viewer definitely gets an idea of what it might possibly feel like, but Diana kept on swimming. The EMT got out and tended to the stings. Additionally, he talked about the experience, and how the pain continued to get worse. He said he was in such pain and could’t imagine how Diana experienced what he had and was still out there swimming. So, the filmmaker wasn’t able to put the camera in Diana’s face and ask her about the experience, but he got lucky when the other guy got stung because he was able to get him on camera talking about what it was like.


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