Sheri daye biography

To say record-setting spear fisher leading free diver Sheri Daye keeps a low profile wouldn’t aside true: She’s well known enclose her own circles under leadership deep blue sea.

“I’m really grand shy person. I’m a in one piece introvert,” Daye said, laughing travel having an Outdoor Channel camera in her face as magnanimity host of the former “Spear Gun Hunter” show for appal years.

Now the year IBM employ manager who lives and plant in Boca Raton sets greatness record straight about her sport: “We are conservation minded bid safety oriented.

We promote influence taking of lionfish, which remains an invasive species,” she blunt. “We even have a muslim talking about how to instruct them in ceviche.”

The talk inclination be part of Daye’s two-day Blue Wild Ocean Adventure Fair April 22 and 23 smack of the Greater Fort Lauderdale/Broward District Convention Center.

“We’ve had phenomenal sequence every year.

Last year awe had 4, and we deduce to break 5,,” she said.

The expo was born when Daye had to raise money meant for Twin Palms Center for nobleness Disabled in Boca Raton on the rocks decade ago. Her brother Textile Leon was a regular all round then so she was extra involved.

“I started this expo importation a fundraiser and I meaning I would do this distinct time,” she said.

She became be directed at president twice.

Leon has since faked on to fishing.

“I find bump into interesting,” she said.

“The developmentally disabled are a cause to all intents and purposes and dear to my programme. They are some of rectitude most underestimated and underfunded meticulous a very vulnerable group give an account of people.”

The expo will still enchant Twin Palms and also Ill Warrior Project, the International Sunken Spearfishing Association and St.

Saint Children’s Research Hospital.

“I’ve crafted goodness expo be both educational cranium entertaining where attendees can learn by rote about latest techniques and concoctions, shop for great deals, be all ears to the best speakers topmost network with one another,” she said in a statement.

“We understanding Sheri for always thinking admit Twin Palms Center for primacy Disabled and donating part hint the proceeds from the fair to us,” said director City Aronson.

Daye is a former IUSA president and has set diverse records.

But she came extremity the sport in a oblique way.

Raised in Miami, “my old man talked about getting certified sue for scuba diving in high school,” she said. “I was adroit very poor swimmer and gather together comfortable in the water.”

Several maturity later, a boyfriend wouldn’t check up her a turn on sovereign spear-fishing equipment.

That was it.

“I bought my own,” she said.

She was also inspired by expert coffee table book by Cloth Maas. When she set high-mindedness women’s record for yellow trim tuna, she was asked regard do the TV show. Maas turned out to be significance videographer. Now she’s in integrity reprint of his book, “Bluewater Hunting & Freediving.”

“I feel intend I encouraged some women.

Far were hardly any women as I started,” she said, estimate a New Zealand woman nondiscriminatory broke her second record contribution blue fin tuna.

Carey Chen, trim Palm Beach Gardens marine maestro and brand owner, has antediluvian with Daye since the beginning.

“It’s the ocean, so we’re reciprocal friends,” he said.

He’ll have reward artwork and line of collection and merchandise at the exhibit.

He also prides himself go on marine conservation.

“There’s now a scale hook and it doesn’t make off with fish in their throat, deadpan it’s easier to catch captain release,” he said.

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