Polina was born and brought up in landlocked Siberia in Russia and while growing up among the snow she could hardly ever imagine that the ocean would become her playground one day. While travelling through Asia she tried diving for the first time and was…

Before Nong became a diving instructor she was a designer and she has her own tie-dye dress shop in Koh Chang, Thailand, where she worked as an instructor before joining the Prodivers family.