Speargun hunter sheri daye biography

In the corporate world, Sheri Daye is a longtime, successful IBM engineer. In the ocean, Daye is a champion freedive spearfisher.

“I lead a double life,” Daye says with a laugh.

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“I’ve always been good at math and science, but I also fell in love with the water.”

Daye, who was born in Nebraska and spent her early childhood in Honduras, discovered an interest in the ocean as a young girl. When Daye started at IBM in 1981, she spent the weekends scuba diving.

It was her release.

That turned into freediving, during which Daye would log dives of more than 250 feet while holding her breath. Then, she experimented with freedive spearfishing, which required her to hold her breath for at least four minutes while diving deep into the ocean and hunting with a long spear.

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One of her largest catches was a 179-pound yellowfin tuna.

“Once I was attracted to the water, I went all in,” she says. “I remember seeing people on a charter boat spearfishing, and it looked interesting to me. The r