AUTHOR: Peter Anthony TITLE: Who inspires you? DATE: 7/04/2006 ----- BODY:

I enjoy scuba diving and I feel like a real adventurer when I dive with big fish like this one - it makes me feel alive. Sometimes I feel concerned about how deep I can dive. Last summer when I was diving off the Barrier Reef in Queensland I was reminded of one of my heroes – Tanya Streeter, there’s a photo of her below. Recently Tanya set a new word record by free diving to a depth of 400 feet or 121 metres - on a single breath lasting 3 minutes and 38 seconds. She has done more than any woman or man using only a pair of giant flippers to propel her to that depth. But she says that its not physical its mental, she says on her website that the deeper she goes the more peace she experiences: “I have an incredible sense of inner peace throughout the dive. It’s introspective because you are forced to look within to understand how you are responding to the experience, and to adjust accordingly. It’s very quiet. And there's a peace that comes from knowing that you are doing the thing that you love more than anything else.” Tanya is a great example of exploring outer limits, and maybe the peace we feel when we get to those limits is the peace of being fully alive and experiencing our destiny. So who inspires you?

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