| 词条 | Mehgan Heaney-Grier |
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| name = Mehgan Heaney-Grier | image = MehganMask.jpg | alt = | caption = | birth_name = Mehgan Renee Heaney | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1977|08|26}} | birth_place = Duluth, Minnesota | death_date = | death_place = | occupation = fashion model, free-diver | years_active = | known_for = | notable_works = }}Mehgan Heaney-Grier (born Mehgan Renee Heaney; August 26, 1977) is an American champion freediver, fashion model, actress, conservationist, and TV personality.[1][2] Early lifeHeaney-Grier was born in Duluth, Minnesota to Bill and Renee Heaney. Her parents divorced when she was six years old.[3] When she was eleven years old her mother remarried to Nelson Grier and in the summer of 1989, Heaney-Grier, along with her sister Erin, mother and new stepfather moved to the Florida Keys. When she was 16 years old, she legally changed her last name to Heaney-Grier. FreedivingIn 1996 at the age of 18 Heaney-Grier established the first constant weight free-diving record in the United States with a dive to 155 feet (47.26 meters) on a single breath of air. The following year she beat her own record with a dive to 165 feet (50.3 meters),[4][5] When she set her second US record, the women's world record for free diving was 204.5 feet.[3] In 1998 Heaney-Grier captained the first United States Freediving Team to compete in the World Cup Freediving Championships held in Sardinia, Italy.[7] In 2000, Heaney-Grier was inducted as part of the inaugural roster into the Women Divers Hall of Fame.[4] ModelingHeaney-Grier has modeled for, and been featured in, numerous catalogs and magazines including People, Outside, Life, Vogue Japan, Abercrombie & Fitch. She has also been a public relations ambassador for Omega Watches.[8] TelevisionIn the late 1990s, Heaney-Grier partnered with her diving trainers, Manny Puig and Mark Rackley (who was at the time also Heaney-Grier's boyfriend), filming underwater encounters with animals such as alligators and sharks.[9] Rackley had worked as a spearfisherman and underwater videographer,[3] and Puig had experience as an animal handler on movie sets[3] and had learned how to ride and handle alligators in their environment.[9] Together with Heaney-Grier, they formed a company named Extreme Encounters, and the footage they produced led to the Animal Planet series titled Extreme Contact.[3] The 20 episode series featured the trio in cage-free encounters with sharks, alligators and other aquatic wildlife.[10] They also worked on a USA Network one-hour special titled "Deep Diver: Tiger Shark Odyssey".[2] In 2002, Heaney-Grier went on to other projects.[2] In 1999 Heaney-Grier had a guest-starring role as a free-diver on an episode of Baywatch, and a starring role on a UPN movie of the week, Avalon:Beyond the Abyss, produced by Viacom Productions. Heaney-Grier has been a featured guest on the Late Show with David Letterman, London's TFI Friday, Primetime Live with Anderson Cooper and Ripley's Believe it or Not. Heaney-Grier also hosted Saturn's Gravity Files, covering the Gravity Games in 2004, and the Mad Fin Shark Series for ESPN in 2008. In 2015 Heaney-Grier co-starred as a member of a 5-person exploration team on the reality show Snake Island, which documents the search for the legendary Treasure of the Trinity on Snake Island, Brazil. Stunt workIn 2003, Heaney-Grier was sought by the director of The Curse of the Black Pearl, Gore Verbinski, to perform an underwater stunt for Keira Knightley.[11] Heaney-Grier has also performed underwater stunts, including scuba diving, free diving and working with sharks, as a stunt double for Jessica Alba and Ashley Scott in Into the Blue, and for actress Olivia Wilde in Turistas. Other workHeaney-Grier was featured in the books A Family of Women by Carolyn Jones.[12] and Freedive! by Terry Maas and David Sipperly,[13] Personal lifeHeaney-Grier married Silas Binkley on June 6, 2010. For seven years she has been the guardian of a rescued wolf-dog hybrid named Rontu,[11] and they are in the process of becoming a registered team for animal-assisted therapy work. Heaney-Grier graduated from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 2011 with both a B.A. degree in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and a B.A. in Anthropology.[4][14] References1. ^{{cite news | url=http://www.sport.co.uk/news/Hot_Babe_at_Sportcouk/15023/The_Bionic_Woman_.aspx | title=The Bionic Woman | last=Moss | first=Ben | date=2009-02-24}} 2. ^1 2 {{cite web | url=http://sports.espn.go.com/outdoors/tournaments/general/news/story?id=3303488 | date=2008-04-07 | title=For The Love of Water | first=Kyle | last=Carter |accessdate=2010-02-29}} 3. ^1 2 3 4 {{cite news | url=http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20123117,00.html | title=Diving Belle | first=Alex | last=Tresniowski | date=1997-09-08 | accessdate=2010-02-28}} 4. ^1 2 {{cite web |url=http://www.wdhof.org/memberroster/memberroster2.shtml |title=Woman Divers Hall of Fame |accessdate=2010-02-28 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100217185817/http://www.wdhof.org/memberroster/memberroster2.shtml |archivedate=2010-02-17 |df= }} 5. ^{{cite web | url=http://faculty.deanza.fhda.edu/donahuemary/stories/storyReader$700 | title=History of Swimming Section | accessdate=2010-02-28}} 6. ^http://www.littleblueocean.com/freediving/content/fame.php 7. ^{{cite news | url=https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/generation-xtreme-1159524.html | title=Generation X-treme | first=Tobias | last=Jones | date=1998-05-17 | accessdate=2010-02-28| location=London| work=The Independent}} 8. ^{{cite web | url=http://www.omegawatches.com/press/press-kit-text/266 | accessdate=2010-02-28 | title=The OMEGA Seamaster Apnea}} 9. ^1 {{cite news | title=Do Not Try This at Home! | first=Kirk | last=Nielsen | date=1998-01-15 | accessdate=2010-02-28 | newspaper=Miami New Times}} 10. ^{{cite web | url=http://www.tvguide.com/detail/tv-show.aspx?tvobjectid=201221&more=ucepisodelist&episodeid=2351970 | title=Extreme Encounters Episodes | accessdate=2010-02-28}} 11. ^1 Shine, T.M. "Water Woman: Meet Meghan Heaney-Grier: model athlete, mermaid". citylinkmagazine.com 12. ^{{cite book | url=http://www.abbeville.com/pdf/0789203383.pdf | last=Jones | first=Carolyn | title=The Family of Women | publisher=Abbeville Press | year=1999 | ISBN=0-7892-0338-3}} 13. ^{{cite book | last=Sipperly | first=David | title=Freedive! | publisher= Bluewater Seadivers | year=1998 | ISBN=0-9644966-1-5}} 14. ^https://www.linkedin.com/in/mehganheaneygrier External links{{Commons category}}
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