Dear Euro-Divers friends and family,
It is indeed strange times we are living, as I write these words people all over the world are in one way or the other affected by the virus spread.
Our heart goes out to those who are directly affected by the sickness or have family who are and to all those that had to endure the pain of losing someone they loved.
As the situation started to deteriorate we still had some of you diving with us around the world, we tried to ensure as we always do that your experience was fun and safe and we had towards the end implemented very strict health rules and sanitizing policies. We wanted to get you home safe and with fresh good memories to help you go through the hard times ahead.
Many of you, depending where you are might be living under strange conditions where your freedom of movement has been reduced, might be more or less worried for yourselves and your family. We share your worries and we also worry about our staff who are the soul of who we are.
We have been busy arranging to get home those who wanted to be with their families and making plans to take care of those that need to be taken care of so that we all can get through this together.
And this word “together” is today more important than ever, we are in this together and we shall overcome this together, thinking about ourselves but also those that surround us.
It is important we endure momentary measures that help the community, follow guidelines given to protect the community yourself and your loved ones and help those who need help whenever it is possible.
And before we realize, this will be over, leaving us to reflect on what we can do better or different in the future. We shall be waiting for you, looking forward to have you back, the fishes are already missing you, even though sometimes they might have enough of us their “bubbly” friends.
So keep safe, take care and take care of each other and be in touch, we all have more time all of a sudden, we shall do the same and keep you informed. If you have not done it yet, feel free to join our newsletter and join us on Facebook.
Yours truly
Your Euro-Divers friends
Everything started with my Open Water Course at Koh Tao, Thailand. I’m hooked with the first breath I took underwater – this magical and peaceful world with all these different colors and creatures made me forget about everything else. It felt like an addiction.
This time made me realize that I don’t want to keep diving only as a hobby. I wanted to become a Diving Instructor and make diving my profession.
I was working as an entertainer in one of the resorts in South Male atoll. The first time I tried diving I absolutely fell in love with it, so every day off I would go diving.
I was lucky enough to meet people from Euro-Divers who helped me complete my instructor course and employment later on.
That trip changed everything. Since 2014, I visited more than 50 countries in three continents.
2019, 2020, 2021 – still in Maldives, enjoying what I love the most.
Im sonnigen Süden (Ägypten) lernte ich im Urlaub die unglaubliche Unterwasserwelt bei einem Schnuppertauchgang kennen und lieben.
Anfangs arbeitete ich im Tauchcenter im Büro, mir wurde jedoch schnell klar, dass ich die Gäste nicht nur über Wasser sondern auch unter Wasser begleiten wollte. Somit machte ich die Divemaster Ausbildung.
I studied Hotel management and ended up working for several years in different Hotels/Resorts around Italians seaside where I spend my days off diving and achieving the Dive Master rating.
I choose to stay in Oman because of its unspoiled dive site, beaches and many undiscovered dive places! We do not have mass tourism here and the country itself is spectacular besides being the safest place to live in.
Bored and burnt out of the stressful life in Holland, I quit my job as Manager Back Office & Finance and I went to Curacao for holiday. On this tropical island I took my first breaths under water with Instructor Marc, who is still my buddy in life.
Diving keeps me grounded, relaxed and connected with Mother Nature (myself). It supports me to let go, to put things into perspective and it helps me to stay focused and balanced in my position as a manager.
But diving was not at all my purpose of the journey, in fact I was not even a diver yet, I became a diver after I got passionate in freediving in Egypt in 2012 while freediving with dolphin in the wild, eager to become a snorkeling guide, I did my life guard licence and then my PADI open water!
I love freediving but scuba diving is an all other story for me, learning scuba diving make you discover part of yourself you didn’t know, you learn to control things that you would have never imagined possible, I regularly see many of my students discovering how calm they can be underwater when in life they tend to be hyperactive and then in the other hand I see calm or introverted persons becoming excited and move like a torpedo underwater 🙂 so diving might not be for everyone but it is definitely to discover!
I decided after my hospitality studies to enter this fascinating new world. I have started my career in Club Med as Guest Service and had the opportunity to travel some of the famous destinations for diving or snorkeling.
I am the perfect example of someone who was scared of diving, the only advice I could give is to believe in yourself.
But since I was young, I knew I wanted to travel the world, to go on adventures, have fun and meet people from everywhere. Unfortunately, those jobs didn’t give me the opportunity to do it so after 5 years I decided to move to Thailand.
Scuba Diving is a sport of passion.
During this time, I wanted to try something new, so I started scuba diving and I will never forget my first underwater experience. I felt nervous at first but at the same time a lot of excitement.
Some people might think that diving is a difficult sport, but there are many ways to enjoy safe diving for any age or gender.
