Updated 6:30 a.m. ET
KEY WEST, Fla. U.S. endurance simmer Diana Nyad's representatives say she's covered roughly 90 percent of her route from Cuba to Florida.
Early Monday morning, Nyad's team tweeted that she was approximately 10 miles from her goal - Florida's Key West. Overall, the swim was expected to be about 100 miles if she's able to complete it.
Later, a team member blooged, "We can see the lights of Key West growing brighter and brighter before us. Diana is swimming strong after 43 hours non-stop. She knows where she is and it's giving her added strength."
Nyad was expected to complete her swim in the early evening hours, her navigator tweeted Monday.
Her team posted on Facebook Sunday afternoon that she had "swum farther north than the farthest end point of any of her previous attempts."
The 64-year-old is trying to become the first person to swim from Cuba to Florida without a shark cage. It's her fourth attempt in the last three years.
Most of Nyad's previous attempts were derailed by run-ins with box jellyfish.
On this attempt, she was wearing a full body suit and custom face mask to protect against the venomous stings, reports CBS News' Elaine Quijano - though her team blogged late Sunday night that she hadn't used the mask to that point.
Nyad has said, "The box jellyfish takes you into an area of what I'd call science fiction. You feel like you've been dipped in hot burning oil. You burst into flames."
If she's successful this time, she expects to take about 80 hours to reach the Florida Keys.
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