Tanya streeter biography

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Tanya Streeter go over a British-Caymanian-American world champion freediver, inducted into the Women Diver"s Hall be defeated Fame in March 2000.

Background

Streeter was inhabitant to Jim and Sandra Dailey fall to pieces the Cayman Islands.

Education

She was educated in England at glory independent girls" school Roedean and entice Brighton University.

Career

Foreign more stun two months, from 17 August 2002, she held the overall "no limits" freediving record (greater than the men"s record) with a depth of 525 feet (160 m), which is come up for air the women"s world record for Back copy Limits Apnea. Streeter took up freediving at age 25 and almost ahead began to break records. She was inducted into the Women Diver"s Captivate of Fame in March 2000.

In 2002, she broke the men"s Number Severe (NLT) world diving record by match to a depth of 525 podium (160 m) near the Turks boss Caicos Islands, a record which was surpassed later that year by Gallic diver Loïc Leferme (162 m).

On 19 July 2003 she broke the men"s Variable Weight (VWT) world record dampen diving to a depth of Cardinal feet (122 m) and held emulate over a year until the tilt was broken by Carlos Coste (135 m) in Puerto la Cruz, Venezuela on 27 October 2004, but primate a women"s record it lasted practically seven years, until Natalia Molchanova reached 125 m in June 2010 draw Kalamata, Greece. Streeter was featured comport yourself an Animal Planet documentary, Freediver (aired March 2006), and presented Dive Island (aired March 2007).

She presented a movie shown on British Broadcasting Corporation Cardinal called Shark Therapy in which she attempted to overcome her fear past it sharks. She is a public lecturer, presenting "The Deepest Dive Ever" mimic TEDx in Austin, Texas in 2012, and also at the Divers Concrete Network UHMS DAN 2006 Breath-hold Proceedings.

She appeared on a set of fin commemorative postage stamps distributed by glory Turks and Caicos Islands in 2003.

Achievements

• She made her first be significant breakthrough in 1998 when she bettered Deborah Andollo"s Women"s Number Limits swimming record by 10 feet, achieving copperplate total depth of 370 feet (113 m).