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NATIONALITY
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BoBorn in Varese (Italy) July 5 1979
Current project in Tulum: building our own dive center and equipment retail shop in order to organize cave/tech courses, logistic for divers, other team and/or instructors
We will provide you with all what you will need for a super cave diving vacation down here in the Riviera Maya.
BACKGROUND
She always been sports oriented, swimming, skating , skiing, what ever sport activities to keep her active, now favorites is kick boxing and gym .
1990 first scuba course with FIPS in Italy (very much military kind of training but she understands that her passion is to be in the water no matter what)
1994 competed in regional downhill skiing races
She decided to enter into the Hotelerie world at that time.
1996 Started training in the restaurant business as Sommellier
1997, 18 years old, graduated from the culinary school in Milan
She worked for a bit in the family restaurant in Italy (Bertoni, Lonate Pozzolo), but she decided she love to travel around.
Started traveling to have more experience and went to Florida to help out in the other family restaurant run by her uncle Antonello (Bertoni's of St. Petersburg, USA)
1998 back in Milan, worked at Aimo e Nadia restaurant (2 star Michelin)
1999 moved to a bigger operation, Four Seasons Hotel (5 star Hotel in the center of Milan)
2000 she worked in Roger Verge's restaurant, Le Moulin De Mougin, Cannes, France
2001she worked as culinary consultant in an Italian restaurant in Athens, Greece L'Enoteka
2002,she moved to Newbury (U.K.) where she worked as chef de partie at the Vineyard (then a 2 star Michelin restaurant)
She decided then to move to London and work in Knightsbridge in an Italian restaurant, La Isola
2003 at 24 years old she gets a great opportunity to go to Fours Season Maldives to open and manage the Italian restaurant inside the Hotel.
At that time, she escaped from the kitchen and got into diving every day.
She decided then to leave a good career in exchange for a better quality of life, more in touch with nature (the water her element since she was a little girl), so that was the moment she got serious about her diving.
2004, 25 years old, back to Italy to get into technical diving in Lago Maggiore and began diving almost every day
Tech and wreck diving drove her crazy during this time, where she met Adam, who shares the same passion.
First trip together was in Florida where they started their underwater cave diving adventure
They leave Milan to work in Sardegna as instructors for the summer
2005 they honeymoon at the High Springs Country Inn, Florida, near Ginnie Springs (very romantic... but in the cave zone...)
Got hooked on cave diving, so they decide to move to Mexico right away.
2005 Start working in Mexico as cavern guide, could not stay and worked for big operation with no quality so early 2006 they start their own cave diving company (CAVE HEAVEN) and start the NSS-CDS apprenticeship to become cave instructors under the mentorship of some of the best cave instructors and explorers in the Riviera Maya and Florida.
Now they just enter in the UTD world and very excited about this new inclusive comunity and about the hi quality training available .
INSTRUCTOR CV
2007 - NSS-CDS Basic cave instructor
2008 - NSS-CDS Full cave instructor
2010 - UTD (Unified Team Diving) Cave 1 instructor
Total cave dives 1000 plus
EXPLORATION PROJECTS (Team: Emanuela Bertoni & Adam Korytko)
Cenote Divino (Puerto A. area, 2007, surveyed passages 330 mt/1082 ft, max depth 25.6 mt/84 ft, Cenote 1)
Sistema Ixchel (Puerto A. area, 2008,surveyed passages 1887 mt/6192 ft, max depth 20.4 mt/67 ft, Cenotes connected 3)
Sistema K'u Pix (Puerto A. area, 2009, 459 mt/1506 ft, max depth 5.8 mt/19 ft, Cenotes connected 3)
she then decide to go to London
DIVING QUALIFICATION
UTD Cave 1 instructor
UTD Overhead Protocols instructor
UTD Essentials instructor (of rec, tech and over head)
UTD Rec 1, 2, 3 instructor
UTD Nitrox instructor
NSS-CDS Full Cave Instructor #363
UTD Trimix 1 diver
NSS-CDS DPV diver
NSS-CDS Stage diver
NSS-CDS Sidemount diver
NSS-CDS Abe Davis Safe Cave Diving Award recipient
APSA official cavern and cave guide of Yucatan
Emergency First Response Instructor
DAN Oxygen Provider.
See more on Ela's UTD page
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