Tanya Streeter: Free-Diver

The Documentary Podcast

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Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.3 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 19 December 2017

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Tanya Streeter made a remarkable dive – on just one breath of air – to the unimaginable depth of 160 metres. This was a dive that nearly went very badly wrong. As Tanya tells Steve Backshall – himself a world-class adventurer – she blacked-out seconds before she began the dive; she developed nitrogen narcosis – almost like being drunk – and struggled to remember how to release the pin that would return her to the surface. On the way back up she thinks she blacked out for a second time.

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0:32.6	That is how the ocean sounds at the almost unimaginable depth of 160 meters
0:41.6	and my guest on today's program has been there on just one breath of air.
0:46.1	Dear God, bring her back, bring her back safely, bring everybody back safely.
0:51.1	God speed, God speed, God speed.
0:54.0	You're listening to the BBC World Service.
0:57.0	Welcome to Worldwide Adventures with me, Steve Baxchel.
1:00.0	For over 20 years I've been working in the field of adventure.
1:03.0	My passion for the outdoors has taken me to the world's most beautiful and occasionally hostile environments.
1:09.0	For this series I'm speaking to fellow adventurers about the most dramatic experiences of their lives.
1:14.8	And then come on Tanya, come on Tanya, come on Tanya, and I knew she was getting close.
1:21.1	Today I'm with champion free-diver Tanya Streeter, who specializes in descending into the ocean depths on a single breath of air.
1:29.0	In 2002, she set a world record for both men and women in the most dangerous category of
1:34.3	free diving known as no limits. This involves being pulled down to great depths
1:39.0	on a sled and then release back to the surface with only the air that you've deep
1:43.6	breathed to sustain you.
1:47.0	One minute till die.
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