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In 1955, Frazier became a certified scuba instructor and was the first woman in the United States to do so. [8] [9] She also created some of the first wetsuit patterns for women. [10] The suits were developed under the name Penguin Suits in conjunction with Frazier's dive shop, Penguin Dive Shop. [11] [3] Penguin was the first female-owned dive ...
On 1 November 2020, PADI Open Water Diver Linnea Rose Mills [1] drowned during a training dive in Lake McDonald in Glacier National Park, Montana, while using an unfamiliar and defective equipment configuration, with excessive weights, no functional dry suit inflation mechanism, and a buoyancy compensator too small to support the weights, which were not configured to be ditched in an emergency.
At age 16 Kathy Troutt made the Guinness Book of Records for the deepest female deep sea scuba dive, breathing ordinary air to a depth of 320 feet (97.5 m) [clarification needed] off Sydney Harbour with former Royal Australian Navy diver, Wally Reynolds. [1] Kathy dived on Sydney Harbour shipwrecks in 1965. [2]
Waterproof's wetsuits have been a staple of the diving world for years, and its W series is a perfect example of why. The available 3.5mm and 5mm thicknesses give divers options for donning in ...
The post Girls That Scuba builds community underwater: ‘We’re in it together’ appeared first on In The Know. We take a dive and get to know the powerful women behind this community. The post ...
In 1957, Parry co-founded the International Underwater Film Festival that ran for 17 years. In 1960, she became the first elected woman president of the U/W Photographic Society. She wrote and published a book with the late Albert Tillman, Scuba America Vol. I, the Human History of Sport Diving in America. The book is now also available as an ...
The WDHOF awards many scholarships and training grants [11] to support women of "all ages who are pursuing careers involving diving" [12] including the J. Berman Memorial Grant for Sea Turtle Conservation, the Sherry Reed Memorial Undergraduate Marine Conservation Scholarship, the Laurel Clark Sea to Space Physiology Research Grant and the Amelia Behrens-Furniss Memorial Hardhat Dive Training ...
In the 2015 Caribbean Cup in Roatan, Honduras, she broke three diving records for Mexico. [5] In 2017, Navarro dove to a depth of 75 meters in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt in the Free Immersion (FIM) and Constant Weight Fins (CWT) categories. [1] [7] The record dive was validated by AIDA International at the Freediving World Apnea Center. [8]