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She is also a three-time National Champion Lifeguard in her home country of Hungary and has worked as a dive center managing-director, scuba instructor, camp counselor, travel agent, billboard model, photo-journalist and Hollywood stuntwoman. She also created and curates Miss-Scuba. Read on to discover more about this extraordinary woman with a true zest for life, whose accomplishments are a testament to the nearly unlimited opportunities a career in scuba can bring. I wanted to make my own movies, see my own sharks and dive my own shipwrecks. I guess I was always pretty hard-headed: I knew what I wanted to do — and I did it!

To kick things off, we recently spoke with Szilvia Gogh regarding her role and the importance of women in diving. Szilvia Gogh is a true Renaissance woman in the worlds of diving and adventure. Szilvia started diving in Hungary at the age of 13 and went on to become one of the youngest females ever accepted to the PADI Course Director program. As one of the youngest females ever accepted to the PADI Course Director program, can you share what drove you to pursue that distinction and what first attracted you to diving? I grew up in a landlocked country, Hungary, with lakes and rivers. It for sure was not the pretty fish and reefs that attracted me to diving at first. I know it sounds silly, but it was the peace and quiet.

Born and raised in Hungary, as a freshly graduated young adult I found my landing in Los Angeles, California following my passion to pursue a deeper learning and understanding of the human body, its exciting potentials and my budding love and deepening commitment to my husband to be, Forrest Yoga guardian Brian Campbell. I pursued a new path of becoming a stay at home mom as new-fangled US immigrant. I found great joy in taking part in our kids education as a coop-mom and volunteering in various forms of fundraising and volunteer coordinating activities. My life started to fill with meaning and a rich tapestry of experience. And throughout it all no words can measure all the empowerment and tools I've received from my yoga practice and teaching.

My experience includes co-ordinating Cyber Issues and conducting outreach to international partners — mainly multilateral organisations on cyberdiplomacy issues. I have a degree in international communications. Early in my career, I regularly translated for international partners doing business in my home country.