Hi Tanya, thanks a lot for taking the time to chat with me hi Ross, you're very welcome I thought I'd start this interview by talking a little. About your background you are British, but you grew up in the Cayman islands is that right yeah a bit of everything I was born and raised in the Cayman islands, my mom's a Brit my father's american and I went to boarding school in the age of nine through finishing university, but I think of myself as. Caymanian because of my roots, but then having been in the u s the last 14 years, it's hard not to think of myself as an american tube so I don't know I'm mixed up never quite know where home is when you were growing up in the caymans a lot you swam with the fisherman and that. Kind of thing yeah as a kid we had nothing else I was literally we didn't have all the late on activities that kids have today and you know the sea was right there and that's where I felt comfortable and that's where I grew up paddling around and catching fish in the. Turned into being in the deeper water and playing beach volleyball as a teenager and drinking beer on the beach and and then I did start hanging out with a couple of spear fishermen and they introduced me to free diving when I was 24-0 okay and what was it that first got you interested in freediving? If it wasn't for breaking records you had to be quite honest, it wasn't for breaking records, but that was something that made it in the beginning pay for itself, it was really just this idea I wanted to see if I could do something that is supposed. To be impossible, but I was old enough to feel that I was at a place in my life where I really needed to know who I was and what I was made of I think I was finding my feet and my place in the world. And in regards to your really deep dives where it becomes very painful, does that pain last when you get back to the surface, no I mean the second you turn around and start heading up the pressure decreases so you start feeling less and less pain while you're going up and when you're up on the surface the pain. That's a reference to any pain that I felt. Once you're back to the surface, you're feeling pretty normal again, yeah completely normal, the deepest the no limit dives, I mean you're not even out of breath because it's a three and a half minute breath hold or so which I can hold my breath for six and a half minutes, can you imagine? Wow, that's awesome and now these days as well you're involved with ocean preservation and environmentalism quite a lot too, yeah I appreciate you asking about it, I had this great career and more importantly, I learned what I needed to know about myself in that environment and. Make a promise every time as ridiculously trite as it sounds, you know my conversation with the c every time about protection as a free diver, I was a patron of different organizations or sat on various boards and things like that spokesperson, it was always very rewarding and made me feel like I was. Fulfill my promise and my work now with the plastic oceans foundation is what makes me feel like I have come full circle because again. Much like my freediving career happening at a time in my life when I needed it, the most being a patron for plastic oceans has come at a time when it needs the most it is a great project that works to end plastic pollution and foster sustainable communities worldwide, I'm proud to be a part of it. Great to hear that Tanya, it was nice talking to you thanks Ross bye. 3. What does Tanya say about her nationality? 1) She is British. 2) It's difficult for her to say for sure. 3) She is American. 4. When talking about her childhood, Tanya says that… 1) it was different from the childhood modern children have. 2) she enjoyed it only when she was with her friends. 3) when she was twenty, she met fishermen who introduced her to freediving. 5. Why did Tanya become interested in freediving? 1) She wanted to break records. 2) She wanted to know what she was capable of. 3) She heard someone saying that it was important to find a place in the world. 6. What happens to the pain when divers get back to the surface? 1) It becomes worse. 2) It remains the same. 3) It gradually decreases. 7. What is the maximum time Tanya can hold her breath for? 1) Three-and-a-half minutes. 2) Six-and-a-half minutes. 3) Seventeen minutes. 8. What does Tanya say about her work with ocean preservation? 1) It has helped her to make a great career. 2) It takes a lot of time. 3) It makes her life more meaningful. 9. What is the Plastic Oceans Foundation? 1) An environmental project to reduce pollution. 2) A project that works to help animals. 3) A project created by freedivers ответить на эти вопросы