Monique from Honduras has two passions: scuba diving and photography. She takes you with her into her underwater world where swimming with sharks, and weightless floating above the corals, makes you realize how important our oceans are! From childhood on I have always loved swimming. I used to live near or at the water, and until this day, the beautiful bay in Roatan is my backyard. Being in the water feels liberating, underwater, above water, floating in the water, it doesn’t matter, it relaxes me. What is that feeling I have over and over again with water…? Maybe I was a dolphin in my past life? I am always triggered by the unknown, want to explore depths and go where most people don’t (dare to) go. Probably that’s why I ended up in Honduras, which literally means ‘depths’ in Spanish. Swinging, being weightless and just be as invisible as long as possible When I dive at a depth of 35 meters, sometimes all kinds of thoughts go through my mind. Floating between the schools of fish and beautiful corals makes me realize that I am a lucky person. Maybe I am sometimes ‘narced,’ which is slang for having nitrogen narcosis. […]