Vanessa Eugene – Sandals Watersports Swimming Sensation

Vanessa Eugene is a bona fide seawater lover! She has found her dream job working in the watersports department at Sandals Grande St Lucian Spa & Beach Resort for eight years. Her journey started as a watersports attendant in 2015. By 2016, she had already became a dive master. Vanessa says this was not a difficult process, as she was primarily responsible for assisting the dive team with equipment classes and sometimes leading on dives. By 2017, she was so adept that she was promoted to the position of assistant dive instructor, and then to a dive instructor. With the official opening of Sandals Royal Curacao, it was evident that Vanessa’s skillset would be in high demand, and once the opportunity became available, she was not shy about applying for a chance to be on the team. Vanessa credits the Managing Director, Mr. Winston Anderson, for her recent journey to Curacao. She says, “Mr. Anderson was always talking about how opportunities are coming and we need to be ready. At the time, this was the newest resort in the Sandals chain that was opening up, and they needed skills like mine. So I filled in the application form, and did...