Part of what makes her story unique is that she is a Black woman from Memphis. There are not many Black female scuba divers from Memphis, or anywhere else. Corhonda Dawson, who says she never imagined ...
Corhonda “Hooda” Dawson made history in April 2025, earning a Guinness World Record for diving on all seven continents in 11 days, 19 hours and 23 minutes.
Dawson, a native of Whitehaven, Tennessee, began her record-setting quest on April 1, 2025. Corhonda “Hooda Brown” Dawson has set a new world record for the quickest worldwide scuba dive sequence, ...