ABOUT ME
My name is Lucia and I’m from Argentina. Since I was born I have had this strange connection with the ocean, and I say strange because I have always lived in Buenos Aires city where the sea is 400km away. When I was thirteen and painted my room blue and put fish decor in the walls, my mom found a sign in our neighborhood that said “scuba diving courses” and she did not hesitate and signed me in. I will never forget the feeling of breathing underwater for the first time, I think nobody does! Every week of that year I would dived and played in that pool. To my mini me that was a very funny hobby, but what I didn’t know back then was that I was starting a career. My instructor told my mom I was “a fish in the water” and I really felt that way every time I was in the water. Years passed and my adolescence moved me away from diving. At my twenties I started searching for information about the courses and certifications.
In Arraial do Cabo I did the first course, in Florianópolis the second and that’s when opportunities started to appear: to start working in the diving industry and dive! It wasn’t easy, and every person who has done it knows. To start the day super early, prepare and move heavy equipment, help the customers, clean and at the end of the day we had to refill the cylinders for the following day dives. But it didn’t matter to me, I was diving every single day and I had my new purpose: to become a diving professional.
That was the point when challenges started to appear. I realized that the courses that I had done weren’t the best, that the instructors I had been assigned had little calling and that there were several knowledge that were being assumed I knew and I didn’t. On my own and with lots of effort I became a diving instructor and I fulfilled my dream.
But now another dream was appearing and had more strength than the previous one: I wanted to be the instructor I would have liked to have. To dedicate enough time to really get to know who my students are and to respect their forms and times to learn, and above all, that they had no fear in asking even the more obvious things.
