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Take the Plunge

ichelle Kraft followed a meandering path to becoming a scuba instructor. After growing up in a military family and graduating from high school in Del Rio, Kraft moved to Arlington for college to study interior design. Back then, she was afraid of sharks and refused to go in the water. “I saw and was petrified,” she says. “I was the kid who they’d have to pry off the wall

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