In honor of the annual Women’s Dive Day, which is celebrated on July 17, we profile some of the Euro-Divers female scuba diving instructors.
They have different backgrounds, challenges, career paths, and dream, but it’s what they share that united them: a Love for the Ocean.
Regardless of preconceptions that scuba diving is largely a male-dominated sport, women have a huge place in the scuba diving world.
We hope these ladies will inspire you.
Meet Euro-Divers’ Female Scuba Diving Instructors
Hello everyone, my name is Yuki, and I am from Japan.
Before my diving career, I worked in the recycle company, porting department in Japan and Malaysia.
Hi everyone, my name is Vee, and I am from Belgium.
Before I got introduced to the beautiful underwater world, I was a social worker helping people to rehabilitate after prison, also a teacher and a swimming instructor.
My name is Anne-Julie and I come from Mauritius.
Since my school time, I was very passionate about the tourism sector, a way for me to travel over the world only by meeting people from different countries and cultures.
My name is Elodie and I come from Belgium.
I decided to travel and discover the world while working at the same time at age 20 in 2009, since then home is where I live and feel good!
Hi, my name is Jeanine and I am from Holland
I’m happy to introduce myself as Diving Instructor and Dive Center Manager for Euro-Divers Meeru.
Hi, my name is Karin Straub, born in South Tyrol in Italy
and part of the Euro-Divers Family over 10 years now. I studied Hotel management and ended up working for several years
Mein Name ist Marion Lang und ich komme von der südlichen Weinstrasse in Rheinland-Pfalz.
Vor meiner Tauchkariere war ich als Industriekauffrau angestellt und später auch in diesem Bereich selbständig.
Hello! My name is Alina Kazbekova and I’m from Russia. I grew up in a small city in the north-west Siberia
and was always dreaming about traveling. Once I turned 18, I quit my university (finished it later though, but never worked as a schoolteacher), packed a bag and left to travel for one year by hitchhiking.
Hello, my name is Dora. I’m from Poland and I’ve been diving for 5 years now.
My adventure with scuba diving started when I first came to work in the Maldives, it is after all one of the best places to go diving.
Hi everyone, my name is Sarah, and I am from Germany. I work for Euro-Divers since September 2021.
I love to show people from all over the world the beautiful underwater world of the Maldives.
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.