Tanya Streeter

Tanya Streeter, born Tanya Dailey, [ [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1949810/bio Tanya Streeter - Biography ] ] January 10 1973 in Grand Cayman, is a world champion free-diver, who made her first important breakthrough in 1998 when she bettered Deborah Andollo's Women's No Limits diving record by 10 feet, achieving a total depth of 370 feet (113 m). Streeter has been known to hold her breath under water for up to 6 minutes.

Streeter was inducted into the Women Diver's Hall of Fame in March 2000. In 2002, she broke the men's no limit world diving record by diving to a depth of 525 feet (160 m) near the Turks and Caicos Islands, a record which was surpassed later that year by French diver Loïc Leferme. In 2003 she broke the men's variable ballast world record by diving to a depth of 400 feet (122 m). She also holds several woman's world records.

Streeter was featured in an Animal Planet documentary, "Freediver" [http://animal.discovery.com/tvlistings/episode.jsp?episode=1&cpi=116235&gid=0&channel=APL] , airing March 2006, and presents "Dive Galapagos" airing March 2007. She has also appeared on a set of five commemorative postage stamps distributed by the Turks and Caicos Islands in 2003; making both her and the Virgin Mary the only women outside of a royal family to be featured on such an item.

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* [http://www.redefineyourlimits.com/ Official web site]
* [http://www.aida-international.org AIDA homologated world records, incl record history]
* [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1949810/ Tanya Streeter at the Internet Movie Database ]
* [http://scuba.about.com/od/women/ss/tanya_streeter.htm <]