I am Maltese, still living there and diving the Mediterranean Sea every day. I used to spend Saturdays waiting for my boyfriend to come back from his dives, and in the end I decided to start doing it myself. I remember my first dive way back in 1985 quite vividly, the feeling of going underwater for the first time while still being able to breathe… a memory anyone who ever did scuba diving keeps. Many years later I became a Course Director, in 1999. It was a double accomplishment for me. Apart from becoming the first female Maltese Course Director in the Maltese Islands I was also one of the very first two locals to attain such a post. I own Diveshack Scuba. Visit my website at www.diveshackscuba.com

LIVIA VOLGYESI: She is way too busy to write now... traveling and diving in Hurghada, Egypt.

BRENDA VAN GESTEL

I started traveling with my parents when I was quit young. I was born in Amsterdam, the Netherlands and had a very adventurous youth. Growing up, getting married, just the normal things in life, but the urge to travel stayed. So we moved to Curacao and started a dive center. This was the perfect life! The diving was great but it was time for a change. Now we are running Rich Coast Diving a PADI 5* IDC center in Playas del Coco, Costa Rica. In our last IDC I joined and am now a PADI Staff Instructor, but I am going for Master Instructor. Course Director? Who knows? As long as I can keep diving and move around the world! www.richcoastdiving.com

I am 45 years old.  A name on a piece of paper and a life lived in the sea. I am British by nationality, but for the past seven years I have been working as a diving instructor in such diverse places as Thailand, Honduras, California, Antigua, Malta, Caymans and now you will find my body diving in the Pacific waters of Costa Rica. It’s a lifestyle not so much about traveling but about living.  But why?  I thought that the salty sea dog look could in years to come be a fashion statement on the catwalks of Paris, London and Milan, so I thought I would preempt it. http://www.wangonthewall.com

CRISTINA ZENATO

I was born in Italy,grew up in in the middle of the rain forest of the Congo Africa till the age of 15, and in doing so developed a love of the outdoors and a passion for the ocean. Life took a different turn though and at the age of 22 I went to the Bahamas to learn Scuba diving. It defined my career. For the past 14 years I worked for UNEXSO, starting to work as a temporary diving supervisor back in 1998. From my exploits I wrote a few short stories for newsletters about cave diving and training. With UNEXSO I also embarked in another passion: Sharks. Self taught about sharks, their behavior, and the difference in sharks, I became the shark feeder instructor for the staff training and guest program. www.unexso.com