Grandmother abandons Cuba-US swim

1 July 2012 Last updated at 07:51 ET Help

A 49-year-old grandmother has failed in her bid to become the first woman to swim from Cuba to the Florida Keys without a shark cage.

Peter Dobbie reports.

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