- By 1957, she had made over 4,000 dives in heavy gear. She held the women's world depth record for diving to 220 feet on air in the 1950's. With her husband Alfred, also an accomplished diver, she entertained audiences performing underwater for the glass bottom boats at Catalina Island. It was during that time, she donned a sea creature suit to play the titular role in The Phantom from 10,000 Leagues, a science-fiction movie which featured underwater filming off the coast of the island and in which her husband was also involved as a stunt diver. In her 50 years as a commercial diver. she served as foreman and tender on pile-wrapping and harbor maintenance jobs, did harbor inspections and traveled the world with her husband training other commercial divers. She was elected to the Women Divers Hall of Fame in 2001.
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