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Freedive WI · 07-22-2003, 12:42 PM,

Tanya Streeter has just broken another record. This waswas in variable ballast. THatmeans you canride a sled down, but you need to swim, or pull, yourself back up. This is harder than no limits because you can't just ride alift bag back to the surface.

She also has a very tight knit team of safety divers. Unlike when Audrey died, and onl;y had a diver on AIR at 300' and one on mix at 560', Tanya has divers stationed every 30' along the way. Amny of the deeper supoprt divers wear "twinspiration" rebreathers. Tanya posted a series of updates on her training dives on the Deeper Blue forums.

She is now contemplating a stab at the hardest catagory of all- unassisted constant ballast. THat means you dive down, and swim back up, on your own without the use of sled, line or even fins. The men's record in this sits at 200'!

Jon

LKunze · 07-22-2003, 01:25 PM,

Jon, a support diver at 300' on air? ??? Why not trimix?

Freedive WI · 07-22-2003, 01:44 PM,

THat's what everyone asked after Audrey died. :-[

Jon

LKunze · 07-22-2003, 01:52 PM,

Jeez...no doubt man. An impaired narced deep air diver for support? Better get him a support diver too then. : Smile

Inspirationdiver · 07-31-2003, 07:23 AM,

Not to mention that at 300ft on air you would be at a 2.1 PO2.

tuuk · 08-05-2003, 08:46 AM,

There is only one thing I think is strange..

If you look at and you look at his records, then you will see he did a world record, but nobody ever heard about it..

Why is that?

I would sure like to know.

Ivan.

Freedive WI · 08-05-2003, 10:23 AM,

All of his records have since been broken. Some of them have been broken a few times over.

If you really want to see some cool dives check out the F.R.E.E. website. They have a diver there named Topi who did a 200' dive using nothing! He just swam down and back using the breaststroke. That is way tougher than any sled dive. Sled dives get most of the press because they go to the deepest depth.

Jon