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Jillian Blakkan-Strauss

@jilliandidwhat

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🪸 Come dive with me 🐙
🐠 PADI Course Director
🤿 Freediver Instructor Trainer
🧜🏻‍♀️ Mermaid Instructor Trainer

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Jimmy’s surprise 16th birthday lunch at his favorite restaurant @donjuansjax. Thank you to everyone that came on short notice.

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Can we do this summer all over again?

What an incredible summer of diving! From exploring new destinations to returning to some of my favorite places, the best part has been sharing it all with friends, both old and new. So many amazing dives, unforgettable marine life encounters, and memories I’ll be talking about for years.

Already looking forward to all the adventures still to come 🤿🩵

Where was your favorite dive this summer?

#SeairaDives #ScubaDiving #DiveTravel #ScubaLife #OceanLovers

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Congratulations to this newly minted PADI Freediver crew on some truly epic days of training! 🙌🤿 All our divers harnessed the techniques they learned throughout the class to get impressive PBs (personal bests) during their pool sessions and open water sessions. 💦 The best part was watching everyone’s smiles after they came up from their dives. 😁 Congratulations to Pete, Madison, Chris and AC on absolutely crushing your Freediver certification course! Our moments in the water were a ton of fun and we are stoked for future dives with you all. 🤩💯

#padi #freediver #freediving #freedive #freedivetraining

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Join us in giving massive congratulatory splashes to these outstanding new @paditv Mermaid Instructors! 🧜‍♀️💦🧜‍♂️ Michelle, Mike and Paul glided their way through their instructor course and were a fun, supportive, and wonderful mer-pod throughout. Our days were full of great discussions, lots of shared laughs, and many happy hours finning around in the water. 🐠
Any future mermaids who get to train with this group are in for a fantastic experience and are sure to become lifelong lovers of the sport. 🩵
Help us shellebrate 🐚 this amazing accomplishment and show our new Mer-Instructors some love!

Many thanks to our partners at @seahunt_scuba for the opportunity to train in their amazing facility. It’s our favorite place to fin around any time we get the chance!

#mermaid #merman #mermaidinstructor #padimermaid #mermaidlife

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✨Wreck Instructor Specialty Highlights ✨
⚓️ @jilliandidwhat found a Florida Regal Sea Goddess
⚓️ @ambaryelmar doing underwater charades
⚓️ Spotted 2 Goliath groupers
⚓️ Running lines in the Ana Cecilia
⚓️ Penetrating the Ana Cecilia with @jilliandidwhat
⚓️ Completing my @paditv Wreck Instructor Specialty

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What a sparkling springs Freediving session we had to send off summer. ☀️ After being greeted by a family of deer our our drive into the springs, 🦌 we encountered the even more excited sight of crystal clear spring water and sunny skies — perfect Freediving conditions. 🤩 We had light beams throughout our session 💎 and the peaceful vibes on the line we at an all time high. 🧘🏼‍♀️ Many congratulations to Steve and Melody on becoming certified PADI Freedivers! You totally embraced your zen and we can’t wait for future dives with you 🤿🙌

#padi #freediver #freedive #freediving #florida

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This is what @paditv Women’s Dive Day should look like💙

A boat full of women. One of the best dive destinations in the world. And an entire week in Komodo.

Mantas. Wild drift dives. Reefs absolutely packed with life. Komodo dragons. Cameras everywhere. Surface intervals spent swapping stories and comparing photos before jumping right back in.

Some women are coming with dive buddies. Some are coming solo. By the end of the week, I have a feeling it won’t matter who came with who!

We’re kicking off the trip with Women’s Dive Day, and @got.kook , @stream2sea , @waterlust , @kahu.tribe , @divewithbuddy + more are helping us make it even more special with some seriously fun goodies onboard.

This trip has been a dream to put together, and we’re already down to just FIVE spots left.

If diving Komodo with a boat full of incredible women sounds like your kind of week… you might want to be on this boat.

Send this to the woman you’d bring to Komodo 🌊

Komodo, Indonesia | July 16–23, 2027

#KomodoDiving #WomensDiveDay #GirlsWhoScuba #ScubaTravel #scuba

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Cheers to an amazing PADI Freediver class with @theonlyroaminggnome and @yo15930! 🎉 And what an absolute treat it was to have @321freedive join us for the training! 🤩 Congratulations Jim and Tom on your amazing personal bests during this course - you both found your zen right away and totally embraced your inner peace 🤿 🧘🏻 You were also both amazing at embracing Freediving technique and integrating it into each of your dives. Many thanks to Jennifer for joining us and for all her help! 🩵 Looking forward to diving with all of you again very soon!

#padi #freediver #freediving #diving #freedive

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We are BEYOND excited about this!!

Some of our absolute favorite small businesses are coming along for our Women’s Dive Day adventure in Komodo: Stream2Sea, KOOK, Waterlust, and KAHU!

If you’ve ever dived with Jillian or me, you’ve probably seen us wearing or using something from these brands. We already love them, which makes it even more exciting that they’re sending some epic goodies for the women joining us in Komodo.

Stream2Sea and KOOK are both women-owned, and all four are small businesses doing really cool things in the dive and ocean community. These are exactly the kinds of businesses we want to support and shout about.

And we still have a few surprises up our sleeves…👀

There is still space to join us in Komodo!! Mantas, insane reefs, drift dives, Komodo dragons, a boat full of awesome women, Women’s Dive Day AND some pretty great goodies waiting for you?!

This trip is going to be EPIC.

Sign-ups close October 1, and that is officially right around the corner. Don’t miss this one!

#WomensDiveDay #WomenWhoDive #divetravel #ScubaTravel #scubadiving

We already loved Stream2Sea… so having them join us in Komodo makes this one extra special💙🌊

Stream2Sea is a woman-owned small business doing some seriously cool things for divers, travelers, and the ocean we all love. Their reef-safer products have been in our dive bags long before this trip, and we love that protecting what we explore is at the heart of what they do.

Now they’re helping us make Women’s Dive Day in Komodo even more fun with some goodies for our travelers, and we are BEYOND excited to have them along for the adventure!

And if you’re stocking your own dive bag before then, you can use my code SEAIRA_DIVES to save when you shop Stream2Sea.

Support small businesses. Support women-owned businesses. And support brands working to take better care of the places we’re so lucky to dive.

#Stream2Sea #WomenWhoDive #WomensDiveDay #ScubaDiving #OceanConservation

If you know us, you KNOW we love KAHU!!

From early-morning dives to surface intervals and long days on the boat, our KAHUs come pretty much everywhere with us. They’re made by divers, for divers, and they’ve become one of thos

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Born to be underwater. Forced to have surface intervals😂🤿

Although with dive buddies like these, maybe that’s not so bad🩵

Some of the best memories happen between dives anyway.

Send this to the dive buddy you’d happily spend your surface intervals with 🌊

#ScubaDiving #DiveBuddy #DiveLife #ScubaTravel #ScubaDivers

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Okay but WHO is coming to Komodo with us?! 👀🇮🇩🔥

A week aboard the Komodo Aggressor for PADI Women’s Dive Day 2027 with Seaira Dives + Zephyr Diving.

Mantas. Sharks. Wild currents. Tiny weird critters. Insane reefs. New skills. Two PADI Course Directors. And a whole boat full of women who would rather be underwater🤿💙

Come solo. Leave with dive buddies for life.

Only a few spots left!

Tag the woman you’d want beside you on that giant stride 👇

#PADIWomensDiveDay #GirlsThatScuba #KomodoDiving #ScubaGirls #DiveTravel

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Hanging out with Capybaras 🐀 and a Sloth 🦥 were not on my 2026 Bingo Card but here we are! Adventure Days with @jilliandidwhat can get pretty wild sometimes! 😉🤙🏽

#amazingaanimalswildlifepreserve #capybaras #sloth

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