Tanya Streeter

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 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 born 2015 After giving birth Tanya Streeter officially retired from freediving She currently resides in Austin 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 Andollos Womens 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 in March 2000 In 2002 she broke the mens No Limit NLT 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 162 m On 19 July 2003 she broke the mens 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 135 m in Puerto la Cruz Venezuela on 27 October 2004 but as a womens record it lasted almost seven years until Natalia Molchanova reached 125 m in June 2010 in Kalamata Greece Streeter was featured in an Animal Planet 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 presenting The Deepest Dive Ever at TEDx in Austin Texas in 2012 and also at the Divers Alert Network UHMS DAN 2006 Breathhold Proceedings She appeared on a set of five commemorative postage stamps distributed by the Turks and Caicos Islands in 2003