Dr. Alex del Olmo

Colin Marshall · Issue 140, Sep/Oct 2024 · pp. 52–58

Products mentioned: Keldan lights, GoPro, Olympus

Dr. Alex del Olmo with Colin Marshall You started diving at 18, living in Spain. I’ve dived in Spain, and the waters there are not exactly teeming with life…! What inspired you to start diving at such a young age? Indeed, the waters of the Mediterranean cannot be compared to those of the Indo-Pacific, but in the Costa Brava, the area where I learned to dive, there are still some particularly beautiful places, which cannot be found, for example, in Indonesia. Where you can enjoy profuse forests of red and bicolor big gorgonian sea fans, or dive with large groupers, even find some hidden places with red coral branches. The reason I started diving was because of my father and my experiences through my childhood. Every year we would go to our summer house in Palamós on the Costa Brava in Catalunya (Spain), where every day I was in the sea with my mask and fins. That’s where I learned to swim…