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Sunday, February 07, 2016
RANCHO PALOS VERDES, Calif. (KABC) --
A special scuba diving program teaches people with disabilities that they can do more than they ever imagined.
Below the surface the differences are hard to find, but back on dry land there's no escaping it.
"I got injured...
(The Florida Bar News) THE DIVEBAR’S ROOT project culminated this summer with some heroic scuba divers — military veterans with service-related disabilities. ROOT — Restoring Our Oceans Together — paired specially-trained divers with wounded veterans, some of whom are paraplegics or who had lost limbs...
Wounded warriors are helping to replant endangered staghorn coral off a beach in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. The expedition was led by Nova Southeastern University’s reef restoration program, and organized by South Florida-based DiveBar, a dive group for lawyers, and Diveheart, a global organization that assists...
Marine Veteran Terry Thomas was injured in Iraq eight years ago. Saturday June 15th Terry escaped the confines of his wheel chair and stood up for the first time since his injury with the help of Diveheart volunteers. "I couldn't take my eyes off my...
By Cammy Clark | Miami Herald | May 30, 2013
It was a reunion 51 years in the making. When Korean War veteran Gabe Spataro was relearning how to scuba dive, he told his instructors a riveting tale about his wheeler-dealer role in an effort half...
Alex Calvo is an Army veteran who is quadriplegic as the result of an accident. Alex finds that scuba diving gives him great mobility as well as freedom from pain. His story appeared in California Diver magazine, and there's a video about Alex called “Free...