Diving San Diego (after the dive)

Diving San Diego , after the dive

      After diving I always feel well hungry, maybe because of seeing all the fish has something to do with it , but for what ever reason, I love to take a short walk around the corner and stop at  a little cafe, with big personality Papalulu’s restaurant.

       Known around La Jolla Shores as the only place with surf boards marking the entrance its outside and indoor dining is great after a dive, opened in 2007 Papalulu’s has served breakfast and lunch to many local patrons as well as those vacationing here in San Diego.

      A LITTLE BIT OF HISTORY

Taken from Papalulu’s webpage,

“Papalulu’s began almost 20 years ago at a small shopping center in University City, a small community notorious for is unique blend of young families and college students. The idea was to create a place where the community could come together and enjoy an honest, quality meal without breaking the bank. Focusing on quality, Papalulu’s had a reputation for delicious food and friendly, personal service.

Owner Nanci Kirk has been building restaurants with this fabulous reputation since she purchased her first at the ripe old age of 29 in downtown La Jolla. In an funny twist of fate, Papalulu’s is named after both her first cook and waitress; her father Papa and mother Lulu. Formerly retired and living in baja california, Papa and Lulu helped to create the warm, family inspired vibe the defines all of Nanci’s projects.

After a brief hiatus, Papalulu’s has grown and moved to it’s current La Jolla Shores location in 2007. Two blocks from the beach, the resturant has adapted to its new home and features our signature dish- the Papadilla”

a tasty chicken atop a bed of greens with a delightful sauce. only one of the great dishes that you will want to try while visiting La Jolla Shores,

The Menu (something for everyone)

Papalulu’s menu is divers and and offers everything form a mimosa to well Muffins, vegetarian to meat lovers, you will find something that will excite your taste buds.

Every thing on the menu, is freshly made when it is ordered, Beer and wine is also available, as is espresso, Cappuccinos, smoothies

Breakfast at Papalulu’s can be a awesome also Pancakes , French toast, Breakfast Burritos and of course for those that choose not to eat meats a vegetarian Burrito.

A touch of home while away from home Papalulu’s will have you wanting to come back and try different things from the menu.

Next time you are in or around La Jolla Shores, area stop in and enjoy some home cooking from Papalulu’s kitchen.

  Papalulu’s (catering and parties)

“Make your rehearsal dinner, reception, or any special event a memorable experience at Papalulu’s. You can reserve the entire space in the evening for your special occasion year round! Imagine your private event with our classic bamboo bar and lively outdoor patio at one of La Jolla Shore’s most authentic locations.

Evenings are usually warm and our patio is decorated with globe lights to create a romantic, warm party setting. The patio can accommodate up to 75 diners, and the dining room can seat 30″.

Catering for any occasion can be handled by Nanci the owner of Papalulu’s is a well respected and widely booked Caterer  for Parties, weddings, fundraisers, or any kind of special event.

Find Papalulu’s on line and on face book,

 

 

 

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Diving San Diego, The Marine Room.

The Marine Room.

Diving San Diego is one of the most premier dive areas in the nation.  Off the shore or off the boat, there is something here for everyone and anyone.

One of these sites is the Marine Room. taken from the restaurant with the same name diners from inside the restaurant can watch the divers as they enter and exit the water, this dive site is a adventure for the novice diver on a dive tour as well as a test  as well as a test of navigational  skills for the advanced divers who venture in to the La Jolla Bay area from the steps at the edge of the Marine room .

getting into the Marine room dive site can be a little tricky some times. during high tide, the access path that splits a residence from the restaurant wide enough for one person at a time to walk down, during high tide the wave crash against the retaining wall at the base of the at the houses and because of  how the wave recoil of the wall back into the on coming waves it is lovingly  referred to as the washing machine.  On other days ,when the tide is out and water  is calmer. it is a easy walk out to the ocean and into the ocean. The sites of the Marine Room depending on the time of year would be Leapord sharks anywhere form five to six feet long , shovel nosed guitar fish, bat rays , sting rays, and other creatures that call the waters off our California coast home.

Setting your compass prior to getting into the water, you strike out on a heading off about 240. will take you to the area of structure eel grass and things that hide there. Sheep Crab. Lobster and Sea lions.

getting to the eel grasses you will find many nooks and crevasses with something hiding in them , bigger fish use the eel grasses to hide in .

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Diving San Diego, Energized and Refreshed

WOW I FEEL GREAT:

Wow I feel great! Have you ever heard someone say that coming out from a dive?  Usually you hear that was a great dive, or I’m tired , or Man I need something to drink, my mouth is so dry feel like I just walked through the desert rather than just getting out of the ocean.

Why do we feel like that?

One reason for feeling like that is because diving on compressed DRY air drys our mouths out you don’t want air in you tanks that create moisture. Moisture in your tank is very bad, not only for the tank but very bad for you also, most people feel we just have to deal with it, NOT John Dooley, john set out to make something that we could use to prevent dry mouth, he came up with a Hydrating drink called

DIVERS D\LYTE

“Formulated specifically for the needs of divers, Diver’s D\Lyte™ provides essential assistance to the body for the most enjoyable dives.

Diver’s D\Lyte™ (patent pending) purposely set out to improve overall diver performance with a unique hydrating energy drink designed specifically for the sport of diving. The rapid hydration system of ionized electrolytes and essential metabolites gives the body assistance in the fight against dehydration.  The Organic and Natural adaptogenic extracts contained in Diver’s D\Lyte™ will add to your enjoyment and provide a subtle source of energy!

Whether it’s for improved hydration, endurance, energy, focus with mental acuity, its natural extracts, or just for a hangover helper, divers are learning to trust Diver’s D\Lyte™ as an indispensible piece of gear to ensure performance of their most valued equipment, “The Human Body“.

After Meeting John while diving the  HMCS Yukon (Canadian destroyer that was intentionally sunk as an artificial reef in July of 2000. The vessel now rests in the Pacific Ocean less than two miles off the coast of San Diego California) John gave me some of his Diver’s D\Lyte to try on the second dive, It was like night and day, after the dive I didn’t have that dryed out feeling and it didn’t leave a after taste like some of those other drinks. John now has quite the following of users. such as Dave Silveria 4 time spear fishing Champion, makes Diver’s D\Lyte “his drink of choice”. Also David Ulloa , (The shark wisperer) Professional underwater Scooter racer, Kelsey Alber (womans Spearfishing Champion) all use Diver’s D\lyet to stay hydrated and comfortable after deep freediving and racing powerful underwater scooters.

Check out Diver’s D\Lyte on the web at www.diversdlyte.com and see more information about this outstanding source of well delight, you can also follow John on face book und what else Diver’sD\Lyte,

Dive Safe Dive offten

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Diving San Diego – Los Coronados

A Day in the  Los Coronados

Horn shark,

Just 15 miles south of San Diego, this is the best half-day trip for scuba diving in San Diego.  A small conglomerate of uninhabited islands just off the coast of Rosarito, Mexico (just South of the border), the most popular dive spots are at ‘North Island’, including ‘Keyhole’ and ‘Lobster Shack’. With depths ranging 15 – 100 feet, and even an old small wreck near ‘Lobster Shack’, the Coronados are a great dive for all skill levels and a “must see” dive site.  With visibility between 50′- 150′ on average, it’s not uncommon to see lots of purple coral, octopus, Moray Eels, Horn Sharks, Harbor Seals, Sea Lions, and Garibaldi.  Making the Coronados Islands a dive you’ll always remember of San Diego dive site

Once the trip is complete, You arrive at the dive site Lobster Shack a few moments later your boat is anchored, and the dive brief is over and your ready to dive. Several dive boats will take you there, The Marissa, the Water horse Charter , and the Lois Ann.

Doing a giant stride, into the cool waters, you descend the first thing to catch your eye is anchored in 40 feet of water you can see the bottom, obscured only by the thousand of fish that may get in your way, the water is a beautiful blue, the bottom has a great deal of structure bolders covered with grass. and soft growth, from the shore the bottom is rocky with eel grass as you move away from the shore, the bottom drops abruptly and becomes a rocky haven for eels lobster octopus and other ssorted fish, invertebrates.

Dropping further the bottom turns sandy with sparse plants and old wheels. and parts of a old cabin cruiser, that stories change with the amount of people that have been out to see whats left of this wreck, one story goes that two doctors went out on a fishing trip set the autopilot, fell asleep and ran aground. before it could be retrieved it was ran picked over by fishermen and left to sink off of lobster shack in about 65 feet of water. the ocean has taken it’s toll on this little boat and has been reduced to some boards and structural supports.

To dive this spot once is a great introduction to Diving San Diego, even though its really in Mexico, you start in San Diego. diving it again you find more and more things to look at. Sea Lions lay on the shore and the young pups come out to see what your doing. playing with your fins. you may surface with a group of young sea lions surrounding you wanting to be your friend.

Moray Eels hid in the rocks accompanied by cleaner shrimp, that craw in and out of the monster eel’s mouth, cleaning parasites form within and roaming over its body cleaning its skin as well. a strange partnership but it seems to work, for both the eel and the shrimp.

Moray Eel and cleaner shrimp

looking in the rocks you may see the Key hole limpet  Megathura Crenula the scientific name attaches itself to the rocks where it lives out its days eating algae, tunicates and sponges. related to Abalone. mussels, sea hares, and  Sea Snails.

key hole limpet

Diving San Diego boats out to the Coronado Islands can be one of the best vacation dives that people do when coming to California. Diving with a guide on the Island can also improve your diving experience by being shown the hiding places of some of the local sea life, with out worrying about navigating around the dive site.

Other dive sites on the Mexican Islands are key hole. Middle ground to name just a couple,  are also just as close as a few hundred yards to maybe a mile or two across  to the next Island. what ever your dive site on the Los Coronados you will have a great dive.

So come dive with us, enjoy what San Diego Diving has to offer you and your friends. Hope to see you soon happy Blogging

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Diving La Jolla Shores.

Diving San Diego La Jolla Shores

Diving the past few weeks in San Diego has been well not the best, the red tide has plagued by it for months now, where the diving has been sketchy at best. The red tide is still with us but it has is slowly making its way out of San Diego, or sinking what ever the red tide does.

The red tide is actually the Birth of many toxic microorganisms or algae, that feeds on the surface or close to the surface during the day collecting light and then feeding on nutrients at night. This light collecting creates a  luminescence   when the algae is disturbed, producing a light shows in the surf or when divers move through the water with the moon light. the wave’s sparkle green and divers leave a trail of light as they swim in the water. One bay in Puerto Rico has a extreme amount of Glowing Algae in the water of its bay and can at times create a awesome photo op, the algae glows when its disturbed and acts as a aura around the body lighting what ever is creating the disturbance, in the below picture a young lady creates her version of a snow angle , here it would be a water angle.

swimming in Bio-luminescent water produces a water angle

Although it is very beautiful and quite odd to see, it has its affect on the diving, the algae over population explosion makes the water brown or dark green and hard to see through for diving this is not the optimum conditions.  so along with high surf and the red tide, diving has had poor conditions. for the past several months. However the conditions have been becoming a little better. Colder water has pushed some of that red tide to the surface and keeping viability where you want it on the bottom rather nice. and clear.  With the clarity comes the spotting of bigger and smaller ocean creatures such as the giant Halibuts that lay on the bottom covered with sand waiting for a meal to swim close by. only moving when something bigger or noisier , or scarier such as the rubber clad one eyed scuba monster with a video camera disturbs its slumber.


 Almost like a ghost in the night floating through Inner space the shape of a shovel nosed guitar fish catches your eye then vanishes into the distance.

As the diver continue their trek through the now blue water, another visitor from the depths appears first one than another and another we count 11 during one, dive. The visitor makes us all hungry  for breakfast the massive creature, moving on the currents of the sea, catching its meals (typically other Jelly fish) as they too float past the tentacles of the monstrous Fried Egg Jellyfish. its size is about 12 to 18 inches, in diameter, with a main undercarriage of about 4 feet long.  The tentacles, although long and and venom packed to its pray deadly to people and divers the Fried Egg does not pack the punch of most jelly fish to the person in the water.

Other fish , Mammals, invertebrates, emerge from the depths of the shores, hiding in the wall you will find Octomom a  octopus that inhabits the wall, only coming out under the safety of darkness or when light has faded allowing it to freely move about the wall,searching for food, shell fish , crabs and such most of the time curling up inside a hole in the wall exposing only a eye to protect itself from unwanted guests,  Sheep head meander back and forth across its chosen area protecting its territory from interlopers. who would challenge to control the females, within the harem.  All sheephead are born female. Most of them change to males following environmental clues we don’t fully understand. The Males grow to be very big, and are black at the tail and head and mid body is usually a reddish color.

Other Fish  of the Wall

Other fish inhabit the wall, Sarcastic fringe head, pipe fish, sea stars , horn shark are all natural tenents on the wall California spiny Lobster find refuge in holes on the wall or under the lip of the crumbling lip of the canyon wall. Squid come into the shores are turning the bottom into a vision of a snow covered plains area with vivid white egg clusters bound together waiting to hatch.

squid eggs bound together on the ocean floor

(imagine thousands of these eggs covering the ocean floor) the wonder that not many people get to see. divers descend to the depths to watch the hatching squid take to the ocean to eat and grow to come back to the wall and lay their eggs, when nature calls.

So many fish so many things to see, I never can understand when people say there is nothing to see diving at the shores. I don’t know about anyone else, but the pictures you have seen in this blog were all taken at the shores there are many more where these came from and plenty more to be taken below the wave of La Jolla shores.

Enjoy your diving , remember dive safe and dive often,

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Diving San Diego – Conditions, Getting Better?

San Diego’s Dive Spots.

Are they getting better? I guess this depends on who you talk to and where they get their information, some environmentalists say as the oceans clean up the big fish will start coming back because the smaller fish are able to feed and the chemicals and junk that we put into the oceans through run off and what not, are being cleaned by natural processes what ever they are.

We are seeing some big fish starting to come back to The area of La Jolla Cove. in San Diego but is this a sign of things getting better or just the water warming up?  I would hope its a sign that things are getting better, but if we keep doing what we always do and expect a different out come isn’t that a sign of delusion, we need to change the things we do. We as divers need to pick up some of that trash we come across  on a day of diving. We need to clean our playground,  make sure that the things that give us the most pleasure are pristine and stay that way. If you see someone throwing something in your yard at home and not picking it up wouldn’t you say some thing to them. Chances are if we do say something to the people littering our beaches we will see that litter on the ocean floor.

Become a advocate for your dive site

La Jolla Shores, La Jolla Cove, Boomers, Children s pool, The Marine Room, all great places when Diving San Diego I love diving those spots, we all do I love being able to walk up from a dive and find my spot on the grass and hang out with friends talking about the dive, going over the next dive with students doing the first two dives of their open water or the last two for those that didn’t want to go off a boat. During this surface interval how many of us watch those that come to the beach to party and have picnics with family cook food and leave trash on the ground, diapers,  cans,  food,  what ever they bring that they don’t use, they leave near the trash not in it and figure it is okay, some one will clean it up. The staff at the Shores and the cove clean ever day the trash the people leave there its a thankless job, and they do it well.

I understand there are only so many trash cans and they only hold so much trash, but people need to take  out what they Bring  in. When they don’t , It ends up in the water plastic, Styrofoam cans, plastic bags, and so much more. This is Dangerous to the environment and to the aquatic life, Sea lions getting plastic around their fins, Lobster’s die in unattended traps. illegal traps set inside the preserve, fish die on fishing line, not being able to eat due to hooks lodged in their throat’s.

Our area may be coming back as far as  some of the feeding areas for bigger fish but there is still so much trash down there, Lobster traps that have been rusted and broke free now catching fish randomly left to die in the traps. Thanks to some divers like the divers from SCUBA DIVER GIRLS, and AL’s DIVING two of the local Dive and Snorkel tour businesses.  One of these traps was found and a rescue of a horn shark made, the trap was disabled and later brought to the surface and disposed of.  Thank you S.D.G you girls rock.

Al’s Diving found a illegal Lobster Snare trap designed to catch lobster by baiting them and snaring them on a chain which they reported to fish and game.

Can we do anything?

Divers do pick  up a lot of trash as they dive  but we can’t pick it all up but what we can do is to mention to those people to make sure the trash is picked up and if they through stuff on the ground maybe politely to pick it up, I know now a days asking someone to do something could cause a problem but it still need’s to be done be polite they may not know what they are doing something has to be done. Pitch in everyone let’s clean it up.

Happy Blogging and safe diving.

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Disability Doesn’t Mean Inability

Disability Doesn’t Mean Inability

Approximately three weeks ago Al’s Diving finished up the first of many classes for those divers that want to help persons with disabilities experience the world of Scuba Diving.

What we have experienced is that focusing on what a person can’t do just makes that part of their life more prominent. Here at San Diego Adaptive Scuba Diving we want to change that focus, a pyridine shift so to speak,  Jim Elliot Jim-Elliottfounder of Dive heart in Chicago has a daughter that was blind from birth.  She was the focus of her peers as the blind girl at one point she decided she was not going to use her cane because she could see (a 1 inch letter approximately 1 inch from her eye) just like anyone else. You can imagine, the stress it put on Mr. Elliott he heard of a program that took persons with sight impairments. Well to make a long story a little shorter she went to the ski school and learned to ski. when asked what she did over the weekend and with pictures of her skiing she became that girl that snow skis, it not only made her feel good about herself but everyone that knew her thought different about her, making the fact that she was blind no longer a point of focus.

With the forming of organizations such as Diveheart and Wounded Warriors, and now here in San Diego area San Diego Adaptive Scuba Diving (in progress  of establishing its 501 (c) 3 Non-profit foundation we have started diver training already certifying 5 dive buddies to assist  divers that may struggle on land to experience the underwater environment where on land the effects of gravity make it a overwhelming struggle to move around. Providing perfect buoyancy  to someone that has that struggle to move about on land, underwater is a life changing  experience.

diving-spinal-cord-injuries Spinal Cord injuries, Amputations, MS, MD, Autism, Down Syndrome, all these conditions that can be devastating, to the individual as well as the family members.  What defines the Individual after the person becomes the disability. Think, about it do you know someone one that maybe was born with a disability or incurred a injury due to a accident, motor cycle , Car, maybe even falling off a horse?  How did you define that person after the accident?  Poor guy / girl, she is in a wheel chair now so tragic he or she won’t ever walk again, their poor family how are they going to deal with this? Wonder if they would like to learn to snow ski, or maybe scuba diving WHAT?  who ever said that?

Well a few have, or we wouldn’t have the programs that we have now. San Diego Adaptive Scuba, Diveheart, Wounded Warrior’s, Wheels to Water, and  Special Olympics, operate on the premise people with a can do spirit can accomplish just about anything. Possibility present themselves and opportunities be come possibilities from possibilities come reality, all it takes is the want, willingness, and action, and one of the most import thing is to stop listening to the people tell them they can’t do things.

San Diego Adaptive Scuba Diving

The Goal for San Diego Adaptive Scuba Diving is to train already certified scuba divers to assist divers with disabilities to Scuba. They  are driven to train, and Certify through H.S.A. (Handicapped  Scuba Association)divers with disabilities. Jacques Cousteau once thought that he would never use his arms again because of a automobile accident in his early years in a automobile accident. He never would fly with the French Air force  but he  would still fly through inner space. Although Jacques Cousteau regained use of his arms again he and Phillipe Cousteau Sr. supported the Handicapped diving program appearing in a short film called Freedom in Depth showing divers with disabilities diving with able bodied divers, entering and exiting the water is the most difficult portion of the dives. Once in the water all things being equal, the divers move through the water effortlessly using hand propulsion or the use of underwater scooters

scooterdiverthese machine’s level the playing field, the diver breaths and just hangs on, and can go almost anywhere a able bodied diver can go the freedom of movement now becomes hand controlled rather than mobility through the legs.  Special gloves made by black Lagoon Products Darkfin gloves are great for divers that have in-ability to move their legs allowing them to pull through the water with more efficiency. We at San Diego Adaptive Scuba used the Darkfin gloves in a recent class to see how they worked for ourselves,  awesome.

Disability Doesn’t Mean Inability

Weather or not you are able bodied or not the ocean is there for everyone to enjoy weather you fish or surf, scuba, swim, what ever your hobby may be it may be something that those with mobility issues can do along with you if trained, Disability  doesn’t have to mean can’t enjoy your sport enjoy your health and be thankful for all that you have next time you have the chance to make a dream come true for someone remember all it takes is,  Want Willingness and Action.

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Diving with Disabilities

San Diego Adaptive Scuba

A Ventilator for Matt

It started simply enough a Diveheart Class / San Diego Adaptive Scuba Diving

We entered the class room, and filled the paper work out Liability releases, Medical statements. the typical things that any dive class would have to fill out , copy of dive card, everything you would expect to do, we gave a overview of the class explaining how diving with disabilities is only limited to the person with the disabilities.

Soon we were watching Philip Cousteau in Freedom in Depth we watched the video’s and discussed the awesome courage, of those persons that endure the lemons that they have received in their lives and have made some of the sweetest lemon aid ever. Then all of a sudden Matt Johnston’s video came on and the room became silent,Matt Johnston after the video Jim Elliot  founder of Diveheart, told the students about a  project that Northwestern University is working on. its kind of a ventilator scuba rig.  After seeing Matt on the video of the TODAY show they wanted to make a ventilator that can be attached to the dive tanks and allow Matt to dive to a deeper level,(Oh did I tell you that Matt Johnston, has what they call Duchenne’s Muscular Dystroyphy and is a Quadriplegic wheel chair bound).

This prototype will cost about 20,000.00 Dollars,  Well this was all that one student had to hear, Giles (a student in the class that not only survived a disabling auto crash and spinal cord injury but, has recovered to approximately 95% of his pre-accident status  pipes up and say’s ” If all it is going to take is money lets find 9 more people as crazy as I am” Without a moments hesitation Giles writes a check for 2000.00 (two thousand dollars) hands it to Jim Elliott and again says I’ll eat noodles for the next month won’t I” This is were it really became not about the training in the class but making a incredible change in the life of one  human being by the generosity of another that did not know anything about Matt until this class, excitement took over planning for the 30 days became the focus. We launched what we are calling The Giles Project ( For Obvious reason)  . to raise 20K over the next 30 days, and give that 20K to Diveheart and Matt Johnston so he can realize his dream. In a bold statement that was taken onboard by everyone there Giles, David, Evelyn, Jim and myself decided we were going to raise the Twenty Thousand Dollars. within the next 30 days. there was no discussion no negative thoughts, no negative statements about not enough time nothing, just positive actions and statement’s like”tell Matt to get his DUI dry suit out he is heading to deeper water”.

A call to action to those that may read this.

Check out Diveheart at www.diveheart.org, give Al’s diving a call toll free for more information @ (877) 213-2983 or simply give a donation as little as a dollar is good but please (No cash) any thing you may want to send Please send by check Made out to Diveheart,  in the memo section be sure to say apply to the Giles Project.

Assisting with the donning of a wet suite for a quadriplegic

Assisting with the donning of a wet suite for a quadriplegic

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Diving with Disabilities – Dive heart training

diveheart logoFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
May 1, 2010
From: Diveheart
900 Ogden Avenue #274
Downers Grove, IL 60515
Telephone: Diveheart at 630-964-1983
Al’s Diving 619-885-1795
California Residents to Receive Training to Teach and/or Assist Scuba Divers with Disabilities
Al’s Diving in San Diego will host Jim Elliott, president and founder of Illinois-based Diveheart as he provides instructor/buddy training for scuba diving with children, adults and veterans with disabilities. The program which begins with classroom instruction on May 19 will conclude with pool and open water dives ending on May 23.
WHAT: DIVEHEART Instructor and Buddy Training for Scuba Diving with Individuals with Disabilities
WHERE:Ocean Enterprises Classroom ,  7710 Balboa Ave San Diego, CA 92111
Open water dive on Sunday, La Jolla Shores
WHEN: May 19-23  A Discover Scuba Event for Individuals with Disabilities will be held on May 22
Diveheart provides and supports educational scuba diving and snorkeling experience programs to any child, adult, or veteran with a disability with the hope of providing both physical and psychological therapeutic value.
The physical, mental and spiritual benefits of scuba for people with disabilities and wounded veterans are beyond measure. “Science is increasingly supporting what we in the diving community already know to be true,” said Elliott. “This is the only sport in the world that has no gravity, along with all of the benefits that come with that. Our divers find that they can move body parts that they’ve never been able to move before. Range of motion improves immediately, circulation improves immediately. The under-water world of scuba is the only gravity-free environment in the world.”
Diveheart instructor/buddy training course has been taught to dive professionals around the world including the U.S., Caribbean, Australia, China, Mexico and more. Attendees at the upcoming event will learn about various disabilities and accessibility. Confined water training includes diving as a paraplegic (with legs tied), and as a blind diver with a blackened mask.
Diveheart Foundation is a non-profit tax exempt 501 (C) (3) national organization chartered in the state of Illinois. For further information visit www.diveheart.com. For information regarding the upcoming event contact Alan Blake at ablakediving@cox.net or call him at 619-885-1795

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Diving with Disabilities – Our world of diving

Our world, the big blue planet, two thirds covered by ocean all connected to each other, amazing isn’t it?

blue marble

Those of us that are divers spend a great deal of time either in the ocean or thinking about being in the ocean, blowing bubbles. We owe a great deal of that time to a man that most of use have heard of, but only know a small part of that story.

On the 11th of June 1910 the a family welcomed into the world a child, that would grow up to become the co-founder of a little company called, Aqua Lung Jacques-Yves Cousteau.cousteau He also became a diving advocate and advocate to our oceans and exploration of them.

Something you may not know about Jacques Cousteau is that his ambition was to become a fighter pilot for the French Air Force. but do to a automobile accident, which left him with out the use of one arm and the other arm badly damaged, he was removed from the Air Force Academy and sent to sea duty, his dream of flying shattered he became a flier of a different kind, he excelled in the underwater world and became arguable the most famous underwater explorer in history.

We as divers have not given up on the exploration of our oceans and many divers are now helping those divers with disabilities explore the underwater world we love so much. through programs like DiveHeart , PVA, and others.

Come visit Diving San Diego each week as I bring you a little more information on diving with disabilities pictures and videos of some the most can do will do exciting people in our area of San Diego . Come get involved, get excited, get certified, explore or underwater world right here in San Diego

COME LEARN TO FLY

 

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