Favourite marine animal: Narwhal! (there are amazing, hopefully, now the song is stuck in your head, if not google the narwhal song!)

Favourite Dive ever: I’ve been diving for 14 years now and I still remember my second dive ever. We were in Playa del Carmen, Mexico and we were doing a drift dive. I just remember that I got in the warm Caribbean waters and I just stood still, the current was so strong and it was taking us through a beautiful coral reef, then suddenly I spotted my first green turtle. It was enormous and so beautiful. After that, another appeared in the distance, then another and another until we were surrounded by more than 50 green turtles! It was as if we were diving in the East Australian Current like in the movie Finding Nemo, it was amazing. That moment has stayed with me since then.

What’s your first memory of the ocean? My first memory of the ocean was of sandcastles and waves. I wanted to go to the water, but my dad wasn’t allowing me to go near it because the waves were very big. I was five years old, but I still remember having an incredible urge to go to the waves and play. Now I do that for a living.

What does diving mean to you? It’s my passion, my hobby and my job.

How did you first get involved with Project AWARE? I got involved when I was working in Mexico with GVI a couple of years ago. One of my colleagues had participated before in a couple of Dive Against Debris surveys when she was working in another organization in the United States. She organized our first survey dives there and we continued doing them for the time we were in that location. After that I move to the Seychelles with the same organization and I brought the idea with me so I organized the first Dive Against Debris dives in this area.

Why did you start submitting your Dive Against Debris data? I started submitting data because we believe that is important not only to clean and keep the reef clean but also to create awareness. I work with people of all ages, nationalities and backgrounds and I’m happy to say that all of them gain a lot of knowledge on how to take care of the ocean. They are more careful and think twice about the use of plastics after participating in this type of activities.

Tell us more about your adopted dive site? I have two adopted dive sites, Corsaire and Site X. I pick them because they were the most problematic areas in my region. We are very lucky here in the Seychelles, we are in a sweet spot where we don’t have many currents taking trash to our beaches. It's relatively clean, but still, we find trash especially in these two sites. Corsaire is near a dock and usually, we find a lot of glass and plastic bottles. Site X is close by but the main object we find is fishing line. There is so much there and every dive we pick up more. The good thing about these sites is that every month we pick up between 1 to 5kg of trash. That’s nothing compared to other sites around the world. But it’s our job to keep them clean no matter what.