Tuuli (28, female) is a PADI MSDT and EFR instructor. She graduated from the University of Tartu (Estonia) and holds a MSc degree in psychology. Before becoming a diving instructor in 2009 she worked in one of the leading psychotherapy centers in Estonia as a psychotherapist and training manager for six years.

She has teaching and guiding experience from the cold waters of Baltic Sea to warm waters of northern Red Sea and current swept waters of Maldives. As of now she has done more than 600 dives, taught more than 60 students from Scuba Divers to Divemasters and introduced more than 100 people to the underwater world by leading them through the Discover Scuba Diving program.

Markko (28, male) is a PADI IDC Staff and EFR instructor. He graduated from the University of Tallinn and holds a BA degree in psychology. He has been working in the diving industry since the year 2004 when he established a diving center back home in Estonia. Oddly only after that venture he decided to enroll in divemaster and IDC courses to become a diving instructor.

The next four seasons he spent in Egypt (Hurghada, Sharm el Sheikh and liveaboards), first working as an instructor for a small brach of one Estonian diving center and for the last two seasons also managing the same operation.

Markko has also assisted the first Estonian Course Director, Tiit Krutob in 5 IDC courses and acted as a translator in three Instructor Examinations.

As of now he has done more than 3500 dives, taught more than 250 students from Scuba Divers up to Assistant Instructor level and engouraged more than 100 people to discover the underwater world by teaching them the Discover Scuba Diving program.

To promote and ensure safe diving practices in our home region we translate together DAN's quarterly Alert Diver magazine from English to Estonian.

From June 2010 to June 2011 Tuuli and Markko lived and worked in Maldives. They were based on Kuredu island in Lhaviyani atoll and worked for ProDivers 5* IDC center as diveguides and instructors.

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