The first "Real Thing"

It was in October 2007, while I was living in England working as a professional model that a  fashion photographer friend of mine, who later turns to become a nature photographer too, Brian Daly, invites me to take an apnea course.
I just had a little problem .... course ... where exactly are we going freediving?
"In Somerset" he told me, is funny how most Europeans feel no cold, and they make it sound so normal .... until it got me! "But it will be at the end of October! After the beginning of winter ... aiaiai!
But he ended up convincing me .. and we went on. I followed with my old 5mm scuba suits , with a couple of holes here and there....
For those who know me I am very tall and thin. (then, the other profession!)
So, to choose a wetsuit it is not easy. Super Large in height and Small in measurements ... wich one should I choose!
One can imagine that comfort is not the first option!
Anyway, when the cold is great n o matter what suit you are wearing it will be useless. I was the only woman on the course and the instructor Emma Farrell was early to say, "you enter the water last!"
I thought Ihh I do not want any special treatment for being a woman, Let's all go!l! It was only to enter the water that some of my feminist side was literally down the drain. That IS cold! The water was so dark that we said that "after 10 meters you have to take a knife and fork to cut trough the water"

Me and Brian

The boys club

After many bottles of hot water that we wahsed down inside the neck  of our wetsuits, two days after the course AIDA 2Stars finished and I was completely blown away, or rather tottaly addicted!

So it begins my passion for freediving.