My name is Luke George, I am 27 years old and a PADI master scuba diver trainer.

For some of us I guess we never let that feeling go. This was definitely very clear in my case.

At only ten days old my mother had me in the swimming pool in her arms whilst watching my older brother trying to overcome his fear of the water by jumping off the edge into the shallow end. The pool attendant told my mother to put me into the water and let me go. As you can imagine she was quite reluctant to let go of her new born baby into 1m or three feet of water but very cautiously she did and off I doggy paddled.

My interest in scuba diving first started as a young boy about the age of seven, when I saw a team of search and recovery divers surfacing after placing lift bags on my father’s sunken fishing trawler.

I thought they were frog men just like on action man.

My family has a distinguished military and sea faring history all the way back to the seventeenth century where it all began with captain Henry Morgan the pirate, so I guess you can say “its in the blood.”

All through school and teenage I asked about how I could get into being a diver and most of the people I went to tried to put me off with “oh its very dangerous and it will shorten your life” when I asked why they said “because of the impact that the pressure has on your body.” These answers were obviously based on lack of proper information. This somewhat quashed my appetite for diving and due to the lack of recreational diving facilities in my area of Wales, I began to lose interest.