Free Diving Anyone?

Tanya Streeter - Free Diving's Top Female

Now please feel free to correct my tagline, since I believe that Tanya's Free Diving World Records are "absolute" and regardless of sex - M/F. In any case, this lady has more records than you can list! No one could get me to try this rather X-treme water sport. For instance, Tanya, on August 17th 2002 - set an Absolute World Record (with No Limits) to 525ft / 160m in 3 mins 26 seconds! That's really deep and really fast. Tanya may have a little bit of Mermaid in her family tree - I kid her of course. She is a finely tuned athlete and trains extremely hard to maintain her cardio, strength and other disciplines we don't give a thought to.

As I perused her records, it seems like there are many types of conditional events, such as with or w/o fins. Using various amount of weight to assist in descent, also fresh and salt water events are included. It appears that there are male and female events, Team events and I'm just guessing that when it says "absolute world record" it means just that - all comers - male or female. It was a pleasure to go though her website and find out about this unique and talented woman.

There are also links to other great sections and out to other freediving sites as well. Just see how close you can come to this woman's record time (posted above). Get you stopwatch or timer out - 3 minutes and 26 seconds - and you don't even have to swim either! If anyone tops that mark, please post a comment and we'll post your time - fair enough? I've got $100 that I don't see any comments. In the meantime check out this X-treme diving sport and check out Tanya Streeter's website!