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On 25 January 1998, the Lonergans were scuba diving with a group at St. Crispin's Reef [7] in Australia's Great Barrier Reef. The boat transporting the group to the dive site departed before the Lonergans returned from the water. None of the vessel's crew or passengers noticed that the two had not returned to the boat. [8]
Tina Watson was a 26-year-old American woman from Helena, Alabama, who died while scuba diving in Queensland, Australia, on 22 October 2003.Tina had been on her honeymoon with her new husband, American Gabe Watson, who was initially charged by Queensland authorities with his wife's murder.
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]
[4]: 100 Originally, diving was an exclusively male profession, with the exception of women who worked alongside their husbands. [4]: 101 The first mention of female divers in literature does not come until the 17th century, when a monograph of Jeju geography describes them as jamnyeo (literally "diving women"). [4]: 101
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 ...
Friends of Colleen Monfore, 68, said they don't believe that she died as a result of a shark attack
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The following year she beat her own record with a dive to 165 feet (50 meters), [4] [5] When she set her second US record, the women's world record for free diving was 204.5 feet (62.3 meters). [3] In 1998 Heaney-Grier captained the first United States Freediving Team to compete in the World Cup Freediving Championships held in Sardinia, Italy. [6]