A certification is a license to learn.

I was certified in Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil, in 2018 and returned to diving several years later. Since then, diving has become another form of coursework—one without a syllabus, semester, or final exam.

I now dive primarily in the Northeast, with a particular interest in freshwater, cold-water, and drysuit diving. Every new environment presents another problem to solve, another skill to refine, another reason to get back in the water.