27/05/2026
From terrified open water student to teaching instructors how to go technical. 🤿 This is 's story, in his own words.
"When I first started recreational diving, I used to look at technical divers as if they were on a suicidal mission. Back then, I was just an open water student who was genuinely scared of the water. I could never imagine that one day I would become the person teaching recreational instructors how to become technical instructors themselves.
The journey between those two points was anything but easy. It was built through years of training, knowledge, discipline, practice, mistakes, lessons, trial, and error until I slowly became solid and confident in what I do.
I was always chasing the next level of training, not to go deeper, but to become more comfortable and more capable at my current level. Eventually, I understood that confidence underwater does not come from courage alone. It comes from proper training, repetition, awareness, and preparation.
Little by little, I became addicted to exploration, depth, and the unknown. But technical diving taught me that every single step underwater must be calculated. I started studying failures, analyzing accidents, understanding human errors, and building plans to avoid them before they happen.
That's when I realized that mastering the fundamentals is the real key to safe and successful diving.
Since then, I have never stopped learning. I never stopped pushing myself. And while I always thought I was exploring the depths of the ocean, in reality, I was exploring myself."
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