I got Kuix's blessing to make a scuba dive shop in the Tano Region / his Caribbean Pokemon region, so made some concept art for this PR vaporeon that hangs out at the shop. May tweak their design as I play around with them.

I imagine they essentially help divers with inconveniences (fetching mask defog for divers in the water, snatching almost-lost-items, keeping an eye on people, carrying small pieces of equipment, also watching divers' bubbles at the surface, etc.). Because it can be such a pain in the ass to get out of the water if you're already hooked up to all that heavy gear and realize you forgot something on land lol.

They also sit at the cashier and guard the money :] One of the dive instructor's pokemon.

I am struggling to maintain my dignity – and my buoyancy –  in Nagoya, Japan. My legs are encased in a violet-hued mermaid tail, and what I thought would be a graceful glide feels more like a splash. "Good," says Shellina Mermaid, my instructor at Mermaid Academy Japan. "But you swim like an American, late for a meeting. Swim slower, like a Japanese mermaid." This helps; soon, I'm swimming gracefully alongside two other local merfolk.

Need to be scuba diving certification to be octonauts.

More scuba hand signals from the PADI website. I thought they might be helpful for those writing Scuba!Gordon, WASP!Gordon or Marine biologist!Gordon.

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