Cure Medical (CureMedical.com) 5 June 2017 The vision of Diveheart is to instill the “can do” spirit in participants, inspiring them to take on challenges that they may not have considered before. Using zero gravity and the adventure paradigm, we help participants believe that if they can...
Paralyzed teen shows the world it's still possible to scuba dive Girls that Scuba (blog) 21 March 2017 Download the PDF My accident happened while training for the U.S. Barefoot Nationals. I had been competing and winning at the national level for several years. There are three events -...
A new micro-brewery in Downers Grove, Skeleton Key Brewery, honored Diveheart as their charity of choice by hosting a major fundraiser event for Diveheart at the brewery. Both Skeleton Key and Diveheart are members of Chamber 630, the multi community chamber of commerce based in...
Chicago Tribune / Aurora Beacon-News February 7, 2017 by Denise Crosby Diveheart, founded by Jim Elliott in 2001, has created an impressive name for itself throughout the country by helping those with illnesses and disabilities discover the therapeutic wonders that this underwater activity can provide. Jim Elliott's goal: to...
Jim Elliott Then: Sports reporter, class of ‘77 Now: Founder and President of Diveheart. Honored as the West Suburban Philanthropic Network Humanitarian of the Year. Download the PDF Jim Elliott attended COD as a journalism major, covering the state championship-winning hockey team for the Courier. After graduation he was...
Diveheart founder and president Jim Elliott was recognized as a distinguished alumni by the College of Dupage where he graduated as a journalism major in 1979. Elliott's experience at COD led him to Northern Illinois University where he graduated as a news editoral/ public relations...
Download the PDF A simple truth guides the work of Diveheart, an Illinois-based nonprofit group whose mission is to help disabled individuals through scuba diving: We’re all equal under the water. It’s more than a moral truth; it’s a scientific truth, according to Jim Elliott, Diveheart’s founder...
By Nancy Klingener - Aug 18, 2016 WLRN Miami/S. Florida Gabriel Spataro was instrumental in placing an Italian statue, cast from the same mold as Genoa's Christ of the Abyss, in the waters off Key Largo. That was in 1965. Recently Spataro revisited the statue, which is locally...
At first glance, scuba diving may seem a surprising therapy for people with severe cognitive and physical disorders. But as Jim Elliott, founder of the non-profit Diveheart knows, diving can be a potent treatment. Participants find they not only experience freedom from the obstacles they...
by Travis Marshall, ScubaDiving.com18 August 2016 Jim Elliott of Diveheart | Disabled Scuba Diver Advocate Jim Elliott spent a lot of time in Veterans Administration hospitals, growing up the son of a disabled veteran. Then his oldest daughter was born blind, which inspired him to become a...