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Melannie holds experience as an author, dive instructor, published marine scientist, and yoga teacher. She is passionate about inspiring connections with each other, within ourselves, and with our planet. As a triple negative breast cancer survivor diagnosed at age 35, she carries the BRCA1 gene mutation.
Credentials
Education:
Master of Science in Marine Science, Hawaii Pacific University, 2013
Bachelor of Science in Zoology, Michigan State University, 2007
Yoga:
200-hour RYT from Satsang Yoga Charleston, 2020 with teachers Andrea Boyd & Jeffrey Cohen
Diving Qualifications:
Freedive Instructor (trained by Nick Fazah, East Coast Divers), 2019
Scuba Instructor (trained by Andy Silverman, Columbus Scuba & Mark Scott, SSI ), 2018
Dive Instructor for PADI, SSI, SDI & PFI
Currently Freedive Instructor with Performance Freediving International (can teach down to 20 m)
Currently OWSI with Scuba Diving International (can teach through divemaster level)