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Have you ever been on a night dive and had your lights go out? Or, imagine yourself doing a shore dive and you find that someone has tied your feet together; just imagine the difficulty of dragging yourself in and out of the water.
These are just two of the challenges that face disabled people who want to experience the serenity and beauty of scuba diving: the blind person is forever in pitch darkness, the paraplegic faces this wall every day.
In spite of these seemingly insurmountable obstacles, there are many disabled who are participating in scuba diving programs especially designed to assist them to experience our sport safely.
Below are listed various services and contacts for disabled persons who wish to learn more about diving:
Articles
Associations and Clubs and Training
Disabled Diver training in the San Diego area.
John Ellerbrock
PADI Master Instructor
Pinnacle Divers
PinnacleDiver@home.com
619.997.DIVE (3483)
Eels on Wheels
Adaptive
Scuba Club
Aron Waisman,
12338 Limerick Ave,
Austin, Texas, 78758
(512) 873-9121
awaisman@austin.rr.com
http://www.Eels.org
Article "Challenges of Diving With Disabilities", by Tammie
Shelton
http://scuba-doc.com/DivingDisabilities.pdf
Handicapped
Scuba Association, Jim Gatacre, 1104 El Prado, San
Clemente, CA 92672-4637, (714) 498-6128, HSA@HSASCUBA.COM
Houston Disabled Scuba Divers Association, 403 East Nasa Road 1, Suite 325, Webster TX 77598-5314, (713) 477-5556, swa@neosoft.com
Southern Wheelchair Adventurers Association of Galveston-Houston, 403 East Nasa Road 1, Suite 325, Webster TX 77598-5314, (713) 477-5556, (Lytle Seibert); swa@neosoft.com,
Dis-A-Dive
Bart Schassoort
3530 Warrensville
Center Road
Suite 200
Shaker Heights,
OH 44122
(216)241-3483
The Australian
Underwater
Federation has published a booklet on teaching disabled divers.
It
can be obtained from theAUF Office,
PO BOX 1006,
Civic Square, ACT, 2608,
Australia.
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