Just your average over 40’s woman who found a passion in scuba diving and travel after doing an intro dive in Fiji for my 40th. Took me a couple more years before I did my ticket but I havent looked back.
After becoming certified my priorities changed, changing from a ‘live to work’ ethos to a definite ‘work to live’ style. For me its work hard so I can dive hard. I can honestly say diving has saved me from an certain early grave as I was a workaholic. Now, I might still put in big hours at times but it is not 7 days a week, its a few intense days here and there to enable me to go on the next dive trip!
Seven years on, I’m an instructor and I have moved from NZ to live in tropical Cairns, Australia working for a dive company and travelling as often as I can.