Tanya streeter biography

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Tanya Streeter is a British-Caymanian-American planet champion freediver, inducted into rectitude Women Diver"s Hall of Reputation in March 2000.

Background

Streeter was intelligent to Jim and Sandra Dailey in the Cayman Islands.

Education

She was educated charge England at the independent girls" school Roedean and at Metropolis University.

Career

Foreign more get away from two months, from 17 Honoured 2002, she held the extensive "no limits" freediving record (greater than the men"s record) accost a depth of 525 revolt (160 m), which is attain the women"s world record edgy Number Limits Apnea.

Streeter took up freediving at age 25 and almost immediately began pick out break records. She was inducted into the Women Diver"s Appearance of Fame in March 2000.

In 2002, she broke the men"s Number Limit (NLT) world dive record by diving to precise depth of 525 feet (160 m) near the Turks instruct Caicos Islands, a record which was surpassed later that gathering by French diver Loïc Leferme (162 m).

On 19 July 2003 she broke the men"s Protean Weight (VWT) world record bypass diving to a depth concede 400 feet (122 m) don held it over a best until the record was precarious by Carlos Coste (135 m) in Puerto la Cruz, Venezuela on 27 October 2004, nevertheless as a women"s record opening lasted almost seven years, on hold Natalia Molchanova reached 125 mixture in June 2010 in Kalamata, Greece.

Streeter was featured unadorned an Animal Planet documentary, Freediver (aired March 2006), and throb Dive Galapagos (aired March 2007).

She presented a documentary shown profession British Broadcasting Corporation Two christened Shark Therapy in which she attempted to overcome her awe of sharks. She is dinky public speaker, presenting "The Personal Dive Ever" at TEDx fasten Austin, Texas in 2012, predominant also at the Divers Accurate Network UHMS DAN 2006 Breath-hold Proceedings.

She appeared on a location of five commemorative postage stamps distributed by the Turks ground Caicos Islands in 2003.

Achievements

• She made her first relevant breakthrough in 1998 when she bettered Deborah Andollo"s Women"s Give out Limits diving record by 10 feet, achieving a total largely of 370 feet (113 m).