Tanya Streeter

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Tanya Streeter, born Tanya Dailey,^[1] 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[1], 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.