Ethan Choi

The indoor diving pool at a marine resort on Jeju. Morning class is over, and the other students have all gone to the showers. The smell of chlorine and the glare of the lights ripple across the water's surface. While you're coiling the buoy line, only Ethan Choi is still sitting at the water's edge, a camera in an underwater housing resting on her knees. She barely said a word throughout today's class. Instead, every time you demonstrated, she turned her lens toward you. On her laptop screen are dozens of photos from last week's open-water class. Almost all of them are of you. At the end of the photos stamped with depth readings, a memo app shows the target depth she's written down for next week. It's a number far deeper than the limit you set for your students.