Tanya Streeter (born Tanya Dailey,
10 January 1973,
Grand Cayman
Grand Cayman is the largest of the three Cayman Islands and the location of the territory's capital, George Town. In relation to the other two Cayman Islands, it is approximately 75 miles (121 km) southwest of Little Cayman and 90 miles (1 ...
) is a British-Caymanian-American world champion
freediver
Freediving, free-diving, free diving, breath-hold diving, or skin diving is a form of underwater diving that relies on breath-holding until resurfacing rather than the use of breathing apparatus such as scuba gear.
Besides the limits of breath- ...
, inducted into the
Women Divers Hall of Fame
The Women Divers Hall of Fame (WDHOF) is an international honor society. Its purpose is to honor the accomplishments of women divers, and their contributions to various fields of underwater diving. Full membership is restricted to nominees who h ...
in March 2000.
For more than 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 still the women's world record for ''No Limits Apnea''.
Personal life
Streeter was born to Jim and Sandra Dailey in the
Cayman Islands. She has two sisters and a brother. She was educated in England at the independent girls' school
Roedean and at
Brighton University
The University of Brighton is a public university based on four campuses in Brighton and Eastbourne on the south coast of England. Its roots can be traced back to 1858 when the Brighton School of Art was opened in the Royal Pavilion. It achieve ...
. She met and married her husband Paul Streeter in England.
They moved to the Cayman Islands in 1995.
[ They have a daughter, Tilly Annina Andrus Streeter (b. 19 August 2008) and a son, Charlie Streeter (b. 2015). After giving birth Tanya Streeter officially retired from freediving. She currently resides in Austin, Texas. She also has four step children residing in the UK. James and Christopher Streeter (b. 10 December 1983), Sophie Streeter (b. 6 September 1985) and Katie Streeter (b. 20 August 1988).
]
Competitive career
Streeter took up freediving at age 25 and almost immediately began to break records.[ She 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). She was inducted into the ]Women Divers Hall of Fame
The Women Divers Hall of Fame (WDHOF) is an international honor society. Its purpose is to honor the accomplishments of women divers, and their contributions to various fields of underwater diving. Full membership is restricted to nominees who h ...
in March 2000. In 2002, she broke the men's ''No Limit (NLT)'' world diving record by diving to a depth of 525 feet (160 m) near the Turks and Caicos Islands
The Turks and Caicos Islands (abbreviated TCI; and ) are a British Overseas Territory consisting of the larger Caicos Islands and smaller Turks Islands, two groups of tropical islands in the Lucayan Archipelago of the Atlantic Ocean and n ...
, a record which was surpassed later that year by French diver Loïc Leferme (162 m).
On 19 July 2003 she broke the men's ''Variable Weight (VWT)'' world record by diving to a depth of 400 feet (122 m) and held it over a year until the record was broken by Carlos Coste
Carlos Coste (born in Caracas, Venezuela, on February 2, 1976) is a Venezuelan professional free-diver. He started his training in apnea and Free-diving in 1996, and got his first national record in 1998. In October 2002 he broke his 1st Official ...
(135 m) in Puerto la Cruz, Venezuela on 27 October 2004, but as a women's record it lasted almost seven years, until Natalia Molchanova
Natalia Vadimovna Molchanova (russian: Наталья Вадимовна Молчанова; 8 May 1962 – 2 August 2015) was a Russian champion free diver, multiple world record holder, and the former president of the Russian Free Dive Feder ...
reached 125 m in June 2010 in Kalamata
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, Greece.
Outside freediving
Streeter was featured in an Animal Planet
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documentary, ''Freediver'' (aired March 2006), and presented ''Dive Galapagos'' (aired March 2007). She presented a documentary shown on BBC Two called ''Shark Therapy'' in which she attempted to overcome her fear of sharks. She is a public speaker, presentin
"The Deepest Dive Ever"
at TEDx
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in Austin, Texas
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in 2012, and also at the Divers Alert Networkbr>''UHMS DAN 2006 Breath-hold Proceedings''
She appeared on a set of five commemorative postage stamps distributed by the Turks and Caicos Islands in 2003.[ In 2014, she appeared as a coach on the television show '' Calzedonia Ocean Girls''. She also features in the documentary ''A Plastic Ocean'' (aired 2016), and today focuses on her work as an environmentalist.
]
See also
* David Apperley
References
External links
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1973 births
Living people
Caymanian free-divers
People educated at Roedean School, East Sussex
Caymanian emigrants to the United States