Meet the team -Toyah

People often ask how I got into diving? have I always worked in diving? where have I dived? and do I still enjoy diving even though it’s my job.?

I actually learned to dive in Fiji on a gap year traveling the world at 18, making my way back to Jersey I then discovered Jersey did after all have diving where I booked on to my advanced open water course… I was hooked and so my gap year started to grow a little longer…I booked a trip to Egypt where I completed my rescue and Divemaster courses. My 3 month planned trip ended up 2 years working as a divemaster and eventually an instructor in beautiful Dahab. I like to call this my gap year that has never ended.. my passion grew and grew and I continued to work in other places around the world such as Vietnam, UAE and Oz. I worked and saved hard ( as much as you can being a poorly paid dive instructor) and I traveled more doing more and more dives in Cuba, Costa Rica, Galapagos, and Panama to name a few. After somewhat 9 years of a 1 year gap year, I ventured back to Jersey back up to Bouley Bay dive centre in search of a job or some dives to feed the bug I still had for scuba… finding the temperature a little different to what I was used to I immediately invested in a dry suit … teaching part-time and working in an office I decided that the office path was certainly not for me I could not do a 9 till 5 sit down job… I was about to leave in search of another dive job and then I was offered to buy Bouley Bay dive centre… I can say I do not work 9 till 5 ( slightly more haha ) and I have definitely, along with others worked my ass off to get the dive centre to where it is today. but what I can say is yes I still love diving, yes I still get excited by even the smallest creature in the water, and yes dreams do come true and I would’’t swap any of it.