Verna Van Schaik

In 2004 Verna van Schaik became the world's deepest woman with a dive to 221 meters. The dive took 5 and a half hours... the journey took almost ten years and changed not only who she was but how she saw the world and the so-called limits we unconsciously live with.

These days her passion is in Empowering others to shift their own limits. Her first book, Fatally Flawed outlines her journey from normal to deepest and spans not only her dives but those of world record holder Nuno Gomes' as well as the late Dave Shaw's rebreather record attempt.

Verna is busy with her second book, renamed as she starts to really understand what it meant to become Deepest. Claiming Myself, Mastering My Life (What happens when a world record is not enough), takes the lessons she learnt getting a world record and translates them into a daily practice that shifts limits in every day situations.

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