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 – Spinal Cord Injuries

Diving After A Spinal Cord Injury

Diving After Spinal Cord InjuriesSpinal cord injuries something we never think about until someone we know or love, are injured. What will we do? Who do we go to for help? How will our lives be changed?

Living with a spinal cord injury does it have to be a bad thing, will I be limited in the things I can do? Last Friday Apr. 23 2010 my neighbor’s son and I were talking about putting in a new front door, on my house, Sunday he was with friend’s horsing around, jumping on the hood of a moving car he was thrown to the ground. Life changed in a instent, for the past 5 days he has laid in a coma, not knowing whether he will be totally ok or what, Talking to his father he made the comment ” I guess he won’t be taking scuba lessons now will he?” I know this isn’t the kind of story people want to hear about, but the timing couldn’t be more appropriate as a HSA certified, Scuba instructor with Al’s Diving in San diego we are holding the Diveheart scuba training with  Jim Elliott founder of the organization.

SCI doesn’t mean life has to stop or has to be any less rewarding, those with disabilities such as spinal cord injuries can with a little help from a friend, achieve almost anything a able bodied, person can. Like Carmen Yu and some of her friends

See more about diving with disabilities on my dive blog www.alsdiving.storeblogs.com, and remember you too can make a difference in someones life. Interested?

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