I was born and raised in a coastal town of Cuba near beaches and fishermen. As a child, I really liked going to the beach, like almost all children, and I did it almost every weekend with my sister and my cousins. A great childhood! It seems that by having so much fun, I forgot to learn to swim… Yes, I didn’t know how to swim.
My father, a lover of the sea and fisherman by hobby, tried to teach me, I remember when I was between 5 and 6 years old and while playing with my father in the sea, I swallowed some sea water. It was nothing I did not even cry, but I think, even if he never told me, that my dad got scared and gave up
teaching me. A few years passed, I didn’t go to the beach so much anymore and I was too “big” (teenager) to be playing under so much sun.
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Then I started working and studying law at university, and although I felt nostalgic for those times, I only went to the beach occasionally to a party with friends or
sometimes just to contemplate. When I went to play in the water, I was only comfortable with the depth up to my chest, if it reached my neck, I would feel as I was drowning because I had this little fear inside me. My mom is more conservative about the sea, she is a little scared so maybe this influenced my phobia. My dad is always talking about the sea, and every time he had the opportunity, he would tell me: Girl, that’s amazing, it’s another world (referring to the bottom and underwater life). Hearing him say this and seeing his facial expression, I was convinced of his words, but i wasn’t to immerse myself in more than 1.5m of water.
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How everything started?
Finally, about 2 years ago, during the coronavirus pandemic and my last year of college, I started to be part of a very promising project. While we elaborated the bases of the project, contracts and
finished the last subjects of the university via online, I spent a lot of time very close to the sea and was surrounded by divers and diving instructors. One of them asked me if I would like to try diving, I replied with a slightly awkward laugh: Impossible, I don’t even know how to swim. Little by little and almost without realizing it, I was feeling more comfortable in the sea. One day Norbert the director and diving instructor of ScubaCuba proposed me to try snorkeling and I as determined as always said yes, although
I did not know what I was doing. It was the first time I used fins, mask and snorkel. To my surprise and that of everyone, we made a tour of almost 2 hours in a diameter of approximately 400 meters in a sea as flat as a mirror. This was quite an event, I told everybody, but the first person I called was my dad, he was so proud… I repeated the feat a couple of times, no more. We concluded the project and ScubaCuba.ca was born at a difficult time for everyone, when Covid-19 was beginning its highest peak, postponing everything until a few months later.
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I finished my university with satisfactory results and continued my work with ScubaCuba.ca, this time as Public Relations.
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A few months ago I did a first discovery dive of Scuba, and I did not repeat it until September, when I started my PADI Open Water Diver course. That second “first time” was incredible. Now I am certified to dive, I do it every time I have the opportunity and every time I jump into the water, it seems unreal to me that until a couple of years ago I never imagined myself capable of diving in 2 m of water, and that I have done it in 30m depth
while I go for the Advanced Open Water Diver certification.
I am very fortunate to be part of this team
with professionals so capable and committed to what they do, when you love your job it can not be otherwise.
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Thank you for the patience, perseverance and affection that characterizes you, for making
me feel at home, and for giving me such a beautiful opportunity. Thanks to you, now the lawyer is also a diver!
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COME DIVE WITH US!!