Tanya Streeter on BBC2

[samdive]

this really was great - I particularly liked the bit about how the mumma humpback teaches the baby to hold his breath.. but just lying on top of him so he can't surface!

must try that approach, just get my buddy to hold me head under....

 

[fcallagy]

great programme really enjoyed it and looking forward to next weeks instalment. looked like the mother was doing a static while teaching the calf.

 

[AltSaint]

A shame that the program didn't have a slightly better slot, say sometime between 7pm and 10pm. It really was very good - excellent filming. Some recent underwater programs ( on UK terrestrial TV ) seem to have over-excited Scuba divers on full-face masks just shouting and flapping their arms about. This was refreshingly different, showing graceful greatures with an equally graceful and relaxed presenter. No harassing or touching either ( from Tanya, I mean )

Hope next week's show in The Galapagos with Sealions will be the same standard.

 

[Tanya S]

Thanks for the encouraging feedback!! Soooo glad you enjoyed the film - I will certainly never forget the experience! A little insider info for DB members' eyes only......I think both the Whale films and this Sunday's Galapagos films will be repeated soon during a prime time slot between 7-9pm midweek. When we anticipated the good feedback this was discussed, so fingers crossed even more people will get to watch it.

And, regarding the movie mask comments (that made me laugh!!).......sorry, but I too have fallen victim to it, as you will see in a 10 minute film at 530pm either this Sunday or next (I can't remember). (If you saw the Dive Belize: Blue Hole film in the Wild series last November, you will remember I had a stab at it then, too.) It was a very challenging peice of equipment to work with, so I only hope that you forgive me if I'm shouting and waving my arms around too!!! It is soooo much harder to work with than most presenters make it look. But it is a lot of fun!

Not sure I will get online next Sunday to see your comments about the Galapagos film as I'll be out at sea again. But it's a lot of fun. Slightly different vibe to Diving With Whales, but equally memorable and special.

Enjoy!!

 

[roy_nexus_6]

Tanya,
My wife and I are planning on moving to T&C Providenciales at the end of the next year.
I understand you know the place pretty well. Any pointers you might have re. freediving on the island ? Thanks in advance!

 

[island_sands]

Tanya,
My wife and I are planning on moving to T&C Providenciales at the end of the next year.
I understand you know the place pretty well. Any pointers you might have re. freediving on the island ? Thanks in advance!

Oh really? Man... you know how to live!!! Lucky you, living in the Caribbean is awesome.

 

[Tanya S]

Roy

On Provo, contact John Garvin at O2 Technical diving (he was my dive team leader) and Phillip Shearer at Big Blue Diving (my photographer). Both were heavily involved in my records there and are great guys who are into supporting freediving. Get them to introduce you to Andre who was also on my team - a great Swiss guy who is really keen to freedive and has even got his own sled.

Be careful and have fun!!

T

 

[roy_nexus_6]

Thank you for the contacts and the info. Tanya!
Best wishes and best of luck with everything you are doing !

 

[Tom Burnham]

As someone with a strictly armchair interest in freediving, what I particularly enjoyed was seeing a diver swimming along and around features on the sea bed - really free as you might say. I'm sure you all do this, but no doubt for good reasons, most videos and photos that get published are of divers following lanes painted on the bottom of a swimming pool or following a vertical rope in the sea! This programme was altogether more interesting for the spectator.

Tom
Kent, UK

 

[Fondueset]

Dvd?

That's an interesting observation. It's true freediving is mostly portrayed in the media as going down and up to set records - or possibly spearfishing. Neither of which really give the sense of overall enjoyment and connection with the environment that define it. I think this points to society's general obsession with 'reasons' and 'goals'. Celebrations of pure joy are a rarity in a 'reasonable' world.

I hope a DVD of this becomes available.

Here in the states mostly what we have on television is news about how the weather can cause inconvenience even to the point of death, how wonderful new pills with potentially deadly side effects will solve all our problems, Politicians providing purile rationalizations for stupidity so obvious it might easily go unnoticed, and television serials about dissection and human beings killing other human beings who killed other human beings....

In this context a beautiful woman swimming with whales is an allmost violently liberating image.

My daughter was completely beside herself after watching the clip. Now she wants a monofin.

 

[Tanya S]

The 2 BBC shows (whales and Galapagos) have been picked up by Animal Planet and will be shown together in 2006.

Best


Paul

 

[Fondueset]

Great news!

 

[nomad1966]

hey that was a cool show about the Galapagos, I really liked the part covering the sealions, the skill they show is just amazing to watch. I have only ever seen seals in the water but never that close with such great interplay, giving you a shell as a plaything was outstanding .... my two young sons never moved from the program till it ended... :thankyou

 

[rcerdena]

Even if I didn't see the video (here in Canada), I saw the little trailer posted in this thread: what can I say..if both movies show the magic moments that we the freedivers share in the blue...more public will be interested in freediving!
Nice work Tanya!

Cheers,

Roberto