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Making Waves | Divers with disabilities find peace in the water | Rotary International Magazine
August 5, 2025We’re honored that Diveheart was featured as the cover story of Rotary International Magazine, reaching 1.2 million Rotarians worldwide. Like Rotary, Diveheart is dedicated to service above self—h...
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Positively Naperville | NEW NORMAL
July 13, 2025By Jim Elliott | Sunday, July 13, 2025 My father was an Army veteran with disabilities. I grew up dodging wheelchairs at Hines Veterans Hospital in Maywood Illinois at a very young age. Hence, I was c...
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Positively Naperville | CHRONIC PAIN AND SCUBA THERAPY
June 16, 2025By Jim Elliott | June 16, 2025 The chronic pain from his spinal cord injury is constant. After his injury and subsequent rehabilitation, Air Force Pilot Ian James Brown had to make the choice to take ...
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Positively Naperville | GAINING INDEPENDENCE
March 17, 2025By Jim Elliott – Monday, March 17, 2025 When Bill Bogdan joined the Diveheart board of directors I had no idea that he was a six-time Chicago Blackhawk sled hockey champion. You see, when Bill w...
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The Legend of the Statue | Full Documentary
March 17, 2025 Join us for “The Legend of the Statue,” an epic journey celebrating Gabe Spataro, a Korean War veteran whose adventurous spirit left an indelible mark on Key Largo, Florida. In 1965, G...
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Positively Naperville | LEGEND OF THE STATUE
February 24, 2025By Jim Elliott – Monday, February 24, 2025 The last thing I thought I’d be doing in 2024 is making a documentary about the most viewed underwater object in the world. The iconic nine-foot tall...
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Positively Naperville | ALWAYS TAKE THE STAIRS
January 16, 2025Jim Elliott is pictured at Wrigley Field between Cubs radio announcer and baseball legend Lou Boudreau and Cubs radio play-by-play announcer Milo Hamilton when he first started with WGN-Radio. Hamilto...
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Christ of the Abyss Statue & Diveheart Foundation: Honoring Gabe Spataro
December 22, 20241Scuba Diving Industry Magazine | Dec 2024 by Patty Cline, Associate Publisher, Scuba Diving Industry Magazine Scuba Diving Industry Magazine pg 27 Dec 2024 Scuba Diving Industry Magazine pg 29 Dec 20...
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Positively Naperville | THE OBSTACLE IS THE WAY
December 14, 2024Pictured: Jim Elliott and his Parents, Family Christmas Photo 1957. By Jim Elliott – Saturday, December 14, 2024 My parents never read to me at bedtime. I didn’t miss it much because I didn’...
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Dive into the Legacy of Gabe Spataro with Diveheart’s New Documentary
December 11, 2024Dive into the Legacy of Gabe Spataro with Diveheart’s New Documentary Natural Awakenings Chicago | December 2024 Diveheart has released a compelling new documentary, The Legend of the Statue, now a...
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Pete Murray Member Profile | Alert Diver
December 11, 2024Member Profile of Pete Murray, Diveheart Volunteer Alert Diver Magazine Fourth Quarter 2024 Issue View PDF...
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Diveheart Wins DEMA 2024 Platinum Diving Community Champions Award
November 25, 2024Featured on xray-mag.com [Downers Grove, IL] – November 25, 2024 – Diveheart, the internationally recognized nonprofit dedicated to empowering individuals of all abilities through scuba diving, pr...
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Positively Naperville | LOVE, VALUE AND PURPOSE
November 19, 2024ByJim Elliott – Tuesday, November 19, 2024 We all need a reason to get up in the morning. We all need purpose in our lives. I thought a lot when I started the nonprofit Diveheart back in 2001 ab...
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Diveheart Gives the Disabled a New Identity | The Bonaire Reporter
November 13, 2024Diveheart Gives the Disabled a New Identity The Bonaire Reporter Oct. 30 – Nov. 13, 2024. Year 31, Issue 21 The Bonaire Reporter covers Diveheart Adaptive Dive Buddy Training in Buddy Dive in Bo...
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Positively Naperville | AWARD WINNING DOCUMENTARY CHANGED MY LIFE
October 20, 2024By Jim Elliott – Sunday, October 20, 2024 In December 2021, I had no idea the documentary Adapting to Dive that film maker David Marsh was making about Diveheart would be an international award-...
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Diveheart Malaysia | The Edge Malaysia
September 20, 2024Diveheart Malaysia aims to build confidence in differently-abled individuals through scuba diving The programme uses adaptive diving, which modifies skills and techniques to meet the individual’s ne...
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Positively Naperville | THE POWER OF WATER AND ZERO GRAVITY
September 15, 2024By Jim Elliott – Sunday, September 15, 2024 I’ll never forget when I was inspired to start the nonprofit Diveheart to help children, veterans and others with disabilities through adaptive scub...
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Positively Naperville | Robinhood… Watch Out
August 10, 2024By Jim Elliott – Saturday, August 10, 2024 Ron Rispoli, recreational therapist Diveheart board member and right arm amputee won’t let anything hold him back. He shares that philosophy with his...
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Nixon Peabody Pro Bono Spotlight: Diveheart
July 17, 2024Diveheart offers scuba diving and therapy to individuals with disabilities worldwide. We interviewed Founder Jim Elliott and President Tinamarie Hernandez about Diveheart’s mission and impact. We’...
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Positively Naperville | PATENT PENDING
July 12, 2024By Jim Elliott – Friday, July 12, 2024 I never thought that I’d be a patent holder, but believe it or not Diveheart, the pioneering nonprofit organization that I founded in 2001, dedicated to ...
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Diveheart’s Deep Pool taps into transformative disability treatment | Fox32
July 9, 2024Diveheart has secured patents to build a 150-foot deep pool, aimed at providing new treatments for disabilities. The Diveheart Deep Pool Project will offer enriched aquatic therapies for condit...
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The Benefits Of Adaptive Scuba Scuba Therapy | WGN TV
July 9, 2024Diveheart Founder & President Jim Elliott explains the benefits of adaptive scuba therapy for persons with disabilities to WGN during their Spotlight Chicago segment....
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The Benefits Of Adaptive Scuba & Scuba Therapy | Spotlight Chicago
June 28, 2024by: Sarah Jindra, Ji Suk Yi Posted: Jun 28, 2024 / 04:18 PM CDT One Chicago organization is on a mission to help people with disabilities build confidence, independence and self-esteem through scub...
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Bubbles of Hope: Scuba Therapy with Diveheart
June 9, 2024The Art of Medicine with Dr. Andrew Wilner Podcast Listen Here Please join me for this 30-minute interview. Jim started Diveheart.org more than 20 years ago. This nonprofit organization offers an unde...
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Positively Naperville | DIVEHEART: STORIES FROM THE HEART – ‘ADAPTING TO DIVE’
June 9, 2024ByJim Elliott -Sunday, June 9, 2024 For many of us, walking is an ability we often take for granted. For others, like Barbara Mabbs from Aurora, the opportunity to be upright and watch her feet prope...
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Positively Naperville | Dedication, Service, and Leadership
May 10, 2024DIVEHEART: STORIES FROM THE HEART – DEDICATION, SERVICE AND LEADERSHIP By Jim Elliott | May 10, 2024 Service above self is how I try to live my life and with the help of great service organizations ...
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Radio Rotary WBPM Show 733
April 14, 2024Kathy and Joni of Radio Rotary interview Rotarians Jim Elliott and Tinamarie Hernandez about Diveheart, a nonprofit organization using scuba diving as therapy for people with disabilities. Jim and Tin...
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Positively Naperville | Moving Beyond Naperville’s High School Pools
April 14, 2024DIVEHEART: STORIES FROM THE HEART – MOVING BEYOND NAPERVILLE’S HIGH SCHOOL POOLS By Jim Elliott | April 14, 2024 For years Diveheart has been collaborating with several high schools that serve s...
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LAKE COUNTY NEWS-SUN | Deepest U.S. pool proposed for North Chicago would be a godsend for the disabled
April 4, 2024LAKE COUNTY NEWS-SUN Deepest U.S. pool proposed for North Chicago would be a godsend for the disabled, planners say; ‘No one has ever done anything like this’ By CHLOE HILLES | chilles@chicagotrib...
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Baker Barrios Deep Pool Architects | Rebusiness Online
March 8, 2024Baker Barrios Architects Releases First Renderings for Proposed Deep Water Therapy Pool in North Chicago Rebusiness Online | March 8, 2024 NORTH CHICAGO, ILL. — Baker Barrios Architects has released...
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CBS News | Diveheart to build deepest warm water therapy pool for people with disabilities
March 4, 2024Diveheart to build deepest warm water therapy pool for people with disabilities From Malaysia to the United States, one non-profit is using SCUBA diving to help people with disabilities. With the help...
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Nonprofit plans to take therapeutic scuba deeper with $300 million proposal | Daily Herald
February 26, 2024Nonprofit plans to take therapeutic scuba deeper with $300 million proposal Posted February 26, 2024 1:35 pm Mick Zawislak A Downers Grove-based nonprofit is fundraising for a $300 million underwater ...
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Pool & Spa Marketing | U.S. organization plans for world’s deepest therapy pool in Illinois
February 21, 2024U.S. organization plans for world’s deepest therapy pool in Illinois February 21, 2024 Rendering of the world’s deepest therapy pool proposed for Downers Grove, Ill. Image courtesy Diveheart Diveh...
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WQAD Meet the nonprofit trying to build the country’s deepest pool in North Chicago
February 21, 2024WQAD8 talks with Diveheart President and Founder, Jim Elliott, and Executive Director, Tinamarie Hernandez about plans for the deepest warm water therapy pool to be build in the Chicago suburbs...
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Secret Chicago | The Country’s Deepest Swimming Pool Is Planned for Chicago
February 20, 2024The Country’s Deepest Swimming Pool Is Planned for Chicago by ELLIOT MCGOWAN • FEBRUARY 20, 2024 Measuring 130 feet, Diveheart’s planned North Chicago facility will offer adaptive scuba ...
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Lake County News-Sun | Funds being raised to open country’s deepest swimming pool in North Chicago
February 16, 2024LAKE COUNTY NEWS-SUN Funds being raised to open country’s deepest swimming pool in North Chicago; ‘Oh my gosh, won’t this be amazing’ This rendering shows the depth of the pool beneath the b...
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WGN News | Local nonprofit Diveheart launches fundraiser for therapy pool
February 16, 2024Local nonprofit Diveheart launches fundraiser for therapy pool ...
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THERAPEUTIC SCUBA WILL GO DEEPER WITH DIVEHEART’S NEWEST POOL
February 1, 2024THERAPEUTIC SCUBA WILL GO DEEPER WITH DIVEHEART’S NEWEST POOL By Lake County Partners, Date: February 1, 2024 Imagine escaping your wheelchair and standing upright. Diveheart, a non-profit organiz...
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Diveheart imagines possibilities for those with physical and developmental disabilities | NCTV17
January 18, 2024Diveheart imagines possibilities for those with physical and developmental disabilities By: Angela Hager, NCTV17 Diveheart provides and supports educational scuba diving programs that are open to ...
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For a Good Cause: Aquarium’s Festival of Human Abilities returns next weekend | Press Telegram
January 18, 2024For a Good Cause: Aquarium’s Festival of Human Abilities returns next weekend By HILLARY MA | hma@scng.com The Festival of Human Abilities — a two-day event aimed at celebrating the creative talen...
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Adaptive Diving Instructor | Scubadiving.com
January 15, 2024TRAVIS MARSHALL is a writer and diver based in Asheville, North Carolina, covering scuba diving training and travel. ADAPTIVE DIVING INSTRUCTOR BY TRAVIS MARSHALL The diving world is filled with peopl...
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Deep Pool Project Launch Press Release
January 6, 2024FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Diveheart’s Deep Pool Project Campaign Launch: A Revolutionary Leap in Inclusive Aquatic Therapy Downers Grove, IL 01/06/2024 — Diveheart, a pioneering non-profit organ...
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Therapeutic Scuba Will Go Deeper With Diveheart’s Newest Pool
December 6, 2023Therapeutic Scuba Will Go Deeper With Diveheart’s Newest Pool Imagine escaping your wheelchair and standing upright. Diveheart, a non-profit organization based in Downer’s Grove, Ill., has been h...
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Disabled people conquer scuba diving with Diveheart in Kota Kinabalu Sabah
December 1, 2023Disabled people conquer scuba diving with Diveheart in Kota Kinabalu Sabah The Borneo Post by Elton Gomez, 56 DIVE LOG Australasia #403 – December ‘23 KOTA KINABALU: With the tagline ‘Imagin...
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Ocean Torchbearer Awards | Syed Abd Rahman | the Undersea Journal
October 30, 2023TORCHBEARER AWARDS OCEAN TORCHBEARER AWARDS Syed Abd Rahman CERTIFICATION LEVEL: PADI IDC Staff Instructor (IDCS-302849) LOCATION: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia CAUSE: Training the next generation of scuba d...
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Strike Back at Gravity with Adaptive Scuba Diving on Catalina Island
October 18, 2023Strike Back at Gravity with Adaptive Scuba Diving on Catalina Island The inclusive scuba practice makes a moment of buoyancy accessible for anyone of any ability. By Ben Mesirow | thrillist.com For al...
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Latina Equal Pay Day | Tinamarie Hernandez | WBBM News Radio
October 6, 2023WBBM NEWSRADIO 780 AM & 105.9 FM Latina Equal Pay Day: Local Latina business leaders work to make a difference By AnnMarie Welser This year, Latinas will earn 52 cents for every $1 earned by whit...
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Diveheart Wins 2023 ShareCare Award in Behavorial/Mental Health Category
September 27, 2023ShareCare Honors Illinois Nonprofit with Award in the Behavioral Health Category, Diveheart wins with inspirational story of young scuba diver on autism spectrum. Diveheart, a nonprofit organization d...
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Her World Doesn’t Have to Stop | Daily Herald
September 21, 2023Peggy Domitz, who was paralyzed a decade ago, has traveled to Bonaire, Grenada, Cozumel and other locations through the scuba diving programs of Diveheart, a Downers Grove-based nonprofit group. Her w...
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Diveheart on WGN Daytime Chicago
September 13, 2023TIME CHICAGO Diveheart Foundation: Scuba Therapy for the Disabled Community DAYTIME CHICAGO Diveheart Foundation: Scuba Therapy for the Disabled Community...
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Scuba Diving Therapy for Veterans | 1 Mile 1 Veteran Podcast
July 12, 2023Episode 54: Scuba Diving Therapy for Veterans In this episode, Danny Mayberry interviewed Jim Elliott and Tinamarie Hernandez, the leaders of Diveheart, a nonprofit organization that helps people with...
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Free Descent Podcast
June 29, 2023Free Descent Podcast Interview with Diveheart <iframe src=”https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/freedescent/embed/episodes/Dive-8-Interview-with-DiveHeart-and-Jakes-First-Classes-e262f14/a...
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Scuba’s Therapeutic Potential | NewsUSA
June 25, 2023Scuba’s Therapeutic Potential 06/25/2023 (NewsUSA) – When scuba diving instructor Jim Elliott first started teaching individuals with physical disabilities in 1997, he intuitively realized...
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Naperville Youth Artist Creates Meaningful Art for Downers Grove Nonprofit, Diveheart
June 21, 2023Naperville Youth Artist Creates Meaningful Art for Downers Grove Nonprofit, Diveheart Downers Grove, IL – June 21, 2023 – Sarah Wang, a talented sophomore at Naperville North High School, has ...
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Nonprofit Helps Those with Disabilities Dive Into Scuba | Observer
June 20, 2023After 17-year-old Claire Christofori took her first underwater breaths in the swimming pool at Arlington Park & Aquatic Complex on June 17, she said she was looking forward to something eve...
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Diveheart Sharecare Award Finalist | Telemundo Chicago
June 19, 2023Diveheart Named Finalist in 2023 Sharecare Awards | Telemundo Chicago Diveheart’s video series, “Divers with Heart,” along with the videos “Diversity, Equity & Inclusion: Adaptive Dive Bud...
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Diveheart named finalist in 2023 Sharecare Awards
June 9, 2023Diveheart named finalist in 2023 Sharecare Awards Empowering Divers with Disabilities: Diveheart Shines as Finalist in Sharecare Awards Downers Grove, IL– June 9, 2023 – Diveheart is thrilled to...
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Rotary Radio
May 9, 2023Scuba for the Disabled (Aired On March 5, 2023) Rotarian Jim Elliott (Downers Grove, Illinois) took the lesson he had learned in a college course in scuba (Self-Controlled Underwater Breathing Apparat...
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Amplitude Magazine
April 30, 2023Excerpt from “AMPUTEES ARE TAKING THE PLUNGE INTO WATER SPORTS”, Amplitude Magazine May/June 2023 Scuba Diving Chris McClanathan preps for a dive. Photo courtesy Diveheart. Chris McClanath...
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Diveheart Documentary Wins 10th Award
April 7, 2023Adapting to Dive chosen as Official Selection of 2023 Julien Dubuque International Film Festival! ...
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Autism Radio Hope Saves the Day interviews Diveheart Founder
February 28, 2023Hope Saves the Day Show #392 Feb 28, 2023 Paul Cimins interviews Jim Elliott, who left a successful career in the media business to launch Diveheart a 501c(3) not-for-profit organization that helps bu...
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Diveheart Talks about Scuba Therapy with Autism Live
February 10, 2023In this segment of Autism Live, the founder and president of of Diveheart, Jim Elliot and his Executive Director, Tinamarie Hernandez discuss how helpful SCUBA therapy can be and how they make sure to...
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Enterprise Holdings Foundation Donates $5000 to Diveheart
December 22, 2022Enterprise Holdings Foundation Donates $5000 to Diveheart for Disability Scuba Programs The Enterprise Holdings Foundation has donated $5000 to Diveheart Foundation to be used towards Scuba Programs f...
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Diveheart 2022 Top-Rated Nonprofit
December 21, 2022“We are honored to be named a 2022 Top-Rated Nonprofit,” says Diveheart Executive Director, Tinamarie Hernandez. We are proud of our accomplishments this year, including premiering the award winni...
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Diveheart Outreach Center Grand Opening
October 7, 2022Featured in Downers Grove Living Magazine. Diveheart is an international non-profit organization but their home is Downers Grove. With the opening of the Diveheart Outreach Center right in the heart o...
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Diving & Thriving | Random Acts S8, E1
October 1, 2022Diveheart Founder and President Jim Elliott and Executive Director, Tinamarie Hernandez joined the cast of BYUtv Random Acts for the first episode of their 8th season. Motivational speaker, Nathan Ogd...
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Diveheart Assists in Surprise Shark Dive
September 30, 2022Diveheart Assists in Surprise Shark Dive Diveheart Founder and President Jim Elliott and Executive Director, Tinamarie Hernandez joined the cast of BYUtv Random Acts for the first episode of their 8th...
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Diveheart Talks Scuba Therapy with Chicago Business RadioX
September 27, 2022Chicago Business RadioX Sept 27, 2022 Diveheart Founder and President, Jim Elliott, and Executive Director, Tinamarie Hernandez spoke with Jacob Lapera of Chicago Business RadioX. They discussed Scub...
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Diveheart CEO and Founder, Jim Elliott, awarded Entrepreneurial Excellence Award
September 9, 2022 Diveheart CEO and Founder, Jim Elliott, awarded Daily Herald Suburban Business Entrepreneurial Excellence Award (Downers Grove, Illinois) September 2022— Jim Elliott, founder, and president of t...
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Diveheart founder presents at largest rehabilitation medical conference in Malaysia
September 3, 2022Diveheart founder presents at largest rehabilitation medical conference in Malaysia This week Diveheart founder and president Jim Elliott shared the benefits of Scuba Therapy with physicians, therapis...
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Diveheart named finalist in 2022 Sharecare Awards
July 5, 2022Diveheart named finalist in 2022 Sharecare Awards Diveheart competes for Sharing Care Award, open for public voting through July 12, 2022 Downers Grove, IL – 07/05/2022– Diveheart an...
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Diveheart Documentary Premiere | Positively Naperville
May 5, 2022‘ADAPTING TO DIVE: A DIVEHEART DOCUMENTARY’ PREMIERED MAY 18, AND NOW IS RECOGNIZED AT FILM FESTIVALS | PositivelyNaperville.com Above / “Adapting to Dive: A Diveheart Documentary” was filmed ...
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Downers Grove nonprofit Diveheart being featured in documentary
April 13, 2022A new wave of therapy: Scuba diving For 20 years, the Downers Grove organization Diveheart has been changing lives by introducing a new wave of therapy. They have taught military veterans and others w...
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Jeff of Scubaverse chats to Jim and Tinamarie of Diveheart
April 12, 2022Scubaverse April 12, 2022 | Jeff chats to… Jim Elliott and Tinamarie Hernandez of Diveheart In this exclusive Zoom interview, Jeff Goodman, Scubaverse Editor-at-Large, chats to Jim Elliott, Founder...
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Scuba Radio Talks about Diveheart Documentary
April 9, 2022ScubaRadio 4-9-22 Hour2 This hour we learn on a Manta conservation project going on off the coast of Portugal. Plus a new documentary about the good works of Diveheart. Adapting to Dive on Amazon Vide...
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Christ of THE DEEP – Gabe Spataro Hinsdale Magazine
May 9, 2021Gabe Spataro makes a visit to the statue of Christ that he arranged to be brought to the Keys a half century ago. The Christ statue is the most viewed underwater object in the world. Christ of THE ...
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Diveheart named winner in 2020 Sharecare Awards in Healthy Living category
October 5, 2020Downers Grove, Illinois – Diveheart recently announced its recognition as a winner in the 2020 Sharecare Awards in the category of Healthy Living for Diving Past Boundaries. Dr. Oz personally...
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Into the Deep (Gulf Shore Life magazine)
August 6, 2020Into the Deep By Artis Henderson Gulf Shore Life Magazine, August 2020 Scuba diving—with its serene setting and immersive experience—proves effective for healing body and mind. Divers call it “t...
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Ruthanne Aves Loves Giving Back
August 5, 2020Ruthanne Aves Loves Giving Back By Wendy Foster Hinsdale Magazine, June 2020 It was a perfect match. Ruthanne Aves visited Diveheart’s booth at a scuba diving expo several years ago. “I had been a...
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FROM NEAR DEATH TO A LIFE FULFILLED WITH PURPOSE
May 1, 2020From Near Death to a Life Fulfilled with Purpose: Diveheart in Depth By Wendy Foster | Hinsdale Magazine It seemed like divine providence. Ten years ago, Scott Alm of West Chicago was in a serious mot...
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WLS-AM 890: Making Face Masks with Ruthanne Aves
April 26, 2020The Jen Weigel Show WLS-AM 890 Chicago Diveheart volunteer, Ruthanne Aves, talks with Jen Weigel about making homemade masks for people who are visiting patients at the Shirley Ryan Ability Lab in Chi...
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NEWS-LINE MEDICAL JOURNAL
April 4, 2020Since 2001 Diveheart, a volunteer driven 501 (c)(3) not for profit organization based in Downers Grove, Illinois has been helping children, veterans and others with disabilities through zero gravity u...
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OCEAN REEF WORKS TOGETHER WITH DIVEHEART ORGANIZATION
March 17, 2020By Ocean Reef / Dive News Wire 17 March 2020 “I can do adventure”. Ocean Reef for Diveheart. Several years ago, Ocean Reef started an amazing and emotionally intense partnership with Diveh...
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A Deep Dive Into Making A Difference
March 11, 2020Kmunitii Your Community Show Diveheart, is a non profit organization that is driven by the generosity of passionate, hardworking volunteers. Tried and true, SCUBA therapy works. With the help of carin...
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POWER OF PARTNERSHIP: DIVEHEART IN DEPTH
March 8, 2020Power of Partnership: Diveheart in Depth Downers Grove Magazine, March 2020 “We’re always so proud of and excited about the support that we receive in very different ways from area businesses,” ...
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STUDENT FILM MAKERS FEATURE DIVEHEART & BENEFITS OF SCUBA THERAPY
February 20, 2020Glenbrook South TV & Film Underwater experiences from Diveheart participants....
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Glancer Magazine: Underwater We Are All Equal
February 6, 2020by Kristen Kucharski GlancerMagazine.com (Mom’s Little Black Book), January 2020 If you know me well, you know I love a variety of activities, including personal support and respite care on the ...
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ESCAPING GRAVITY
February 1, 2020Escaping Gravity: Diveheart in Depth Hinsdale Magazine February 2020 It’s estimated that less than 1.2% of Americans participate in scuba diving. Among this elite group of underwater adventurers...
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BENEFITING INDIVIDUALS WITH AUTISM
January 6, 2020“Science is increasingly supporting what we’ve known to be true for years,” said Jim Elliott, president and founder of Diveheart. The non-profit, based in Downers Grove and with chapters around ...
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Steven Woodham: Marine Corps Vet & Diveheart Diver
November 15, 2019Hinsdale Magazine, November 2019 Q: How did you first hear about Diveheart? I heard about Diveheart through the Aurora Vet Center. I was going there for readjustment counseling and was told that I mig...
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Diveheart: A Beacon for Adaptive Diving
November 1, 2019By John Tapley, Scuba H2O Adventures Magazine November 1, 2019 The world of scuba diving is inviting and expansive: while enveloped within the blue, scuba divers enjoy a realm unlike any other: a zone...
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Diveheart Malaysia: Buletin TV3 – Dream of becoming scuba divers with disability
October 1, 2019Realisasi Impian OKU Jadi Penyelam Skuba (video) Realization of a Dream for a Scuba Diver with a Disability Buletin TV3 Malaysia Aktiviti selam skuba terbukti berkesan sebagai proses pemulihan dan lat...
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Cure Medical: Christopher Block Finds Freedom in Scuba Diving
September 25, 2019Christopher Block Finds Freedom in Scuba Diving After SCI Cure Medical The CURE NATION blog often shares stories of people exploring their world after spinal cord injury to help encourage others on th...
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Sevan Charitable Foundation Supports Diveheart
September 13, 2019In 2019 the Sevan corporation based in Downers Grove Illinois, selected Diveheart to receive benefits from its 2nd annual golf outing fundraiser held at Cantigny golf course in Winfield Illinois. Seva...
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Dive Right In | Comcast Newsmakers – Diveheart’s Tinamarie Hernandez
August 22, 2019Diveheart is a nonprofit tax-exempt 501(c)(3) organization. The purpose of Diveheart is to provide and support educational scuba diving programs that are open to any child, adult or veteran with a dis...
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ADAPTIVE SCUBA PROGRAM EMPOWERS DISABLED DC KIDS (VIDEO)
August 5, 2019WUSA-TV 9, Washington DC Diveheart and it’s many skilled volunteers work to build confidence, independence and self-esteem in children, adults and veterans of all abilities through adaptive SCUB...
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Diveheart: We Are All Equals Under the Water (video)
July 3, 2019WUSA-TV9, Washington DC Great Day Washington reporter Andi Hauser travels to Wakefield High School pool in Arlington, VA to learn how Diveheart, an adaptive scuba program is changing lives. The goal o...
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On the Mark: Diveheart’s Ron Rispoli
June 19, 2019By joining the Diveheart team, you will become part of one of the most innovative nonprofits in the diving world. Diveheart relies on the participation and donations of people like you to support our ...
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A Plunge of Faith: Diveheart’s Gabe Spataro
June 17, 2019by Louis Carlozo, Fra Noi A Plunge of Faith Half a century after enshrining a famous Italian statue of Christ beneath the waves of the Gulf of Mexico, blind diver Gabe Spataro proves himself to be a s...
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Socal Woman Celebrates Triumph Over Paralysis By Scuba Diving
May 20, 2019By Kristen Lago, Spectrum News 1 SANTA CLARITA, Calif. – You wouldn’t think the anniversary of a life-altering injury would be something to celebrate, but that’s exactly what took place at t...
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LIFE-CHANGING: GAIN A WHOLE NEW PERSPECTIVE OF VOLUNTEERING WITH DIVEHEART’S SARAH REPKA
May 13, 2019Life-Changing: Gain a whole new perspective of volunteering with Diveheart’s Sarah Repka Hinsdale Magazine May 2019 LIFE CHANGING! The “Diveheart ripple effect” is used to inspire people...
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From the Wheelchair to the Water: Ben Hetrick, RAYVETS
April 30, 2019Corporate Communications February 2019 Ben Hetrick has always found freedom in the water. As little kid it was swimming with family. As a young man it was water sports with his buddies. After his acci...
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ABC 7 Chicago: Diveheart Helps People with Disabilities Gain Confidence
April 15, 2019Chicago Proud: Diveheart Helps People with Disabilities Gain Confidence through Scuba Diving (video) ABC 7 Chicago CHICAGO (WLS) — Chicago Proud is an ongoing series of ABC 7 Eyewitness News rep...
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Service Above Self: Diveheart’s Jackson Steigbigel & Connor Devine
April 3, 2019Hinsdale Magazine April 2019 SERVICE ABOVE SELF Hinsdale Central’s Jackson Steigbigel and Connor Devine join forces with Diveheart to help children, veterans and disabled Photo by Daniel Garcia (cro...
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WBEZ 91.5 Chicago NPR: Disability Therapy Through Scuba Diving – Tinamarie Hernandez
March 30, 2019Global Activism: Disability Therapy Through Scuba Diving – Interview with Diveheart’s Tinamarie Hernandez WBEZ 91.5FM / NPR The organization Diveheart believes in the therapeutic value of ...
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The Daily Herald Business Ledger’s Award for Business Excellence
March 28, 2019The Daily Herald Business Ledger’s 29th Annual Award for Business Excellence recognized Downers Grove-based Diveheart in the Not-for-Profit Organization category as the 2019 Honoree. Tinamarie Herna...
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NBC 5 Chicago: Diveheart Offers Scuba Therapy for Disabled Community
March 27, 2019Diveheart Offers Scuba Therapy for Disabled Community (video) NBC 5 Chicago News: Making A Difference A non-profit in Downers Grove is making a difference. The organization is asking people to donate ...
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Naperville Woman’s Club Supports Diveheart
March 8, 2019For Diveheart’s work in serving the community, the Naperville Woman’s Club recognized Diveheart in 2019 and supported Diveheart’s continued efforts with a grant from the club. The Naperville Wom...
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Wonder Woman: Diveheart’s Amber Rangel
March 1, 2019Hinsdale Magazine March 2019 Did you know that March is actually the official birthday of Wonder Woman? According to the 1976 DC Comics Calendar, March 22 is Wonder Woman’s in-universe birthday. Won...
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Catholic Chicago Radio: Interview with Gabe Spataro & Jim Elliott
February 25, 2019Archdiocese of Chicago WNDZ 750AM Diveheart is a non-profit organization that uses scuba diving to help build confidence and self-esteem in children, adults and veterans with disabilities. Guests: Jim...
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CBS11 News: North Texas Group Takes People With Disabilities Diving
February 20, 2019North Texas Group Takes People With Disabilities Diving (video) CBS 11 News Living with a disability can often mean being told you can’t do certain things but one North Texas group wants the disable...
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Diving In: Diveheart’s Tina Hernandez talks about giving back
February 1, 2019by Janis Von Kaenel Hinsdale Magazine, February 2019 Diveheart executive director Tinamarie Hernandez talks about giving back She describes herself as the person you don’t think of when great things...
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Equal Footing – Bill Bogden is changing disabled people’s lives
January 15, 2019Equal FOOTING Bill Bogden is changing disabled people’s lives, one scuba dive at a time by Kerrie Kennedy Hinsdale Magazine Bill Bogden is on a mission. He wants to show disabled people how scuba-di...
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Naperville (Illinois) NCTV17: Diveheart Provides Safe Activities for Adaptive Divers
January 15, 2019Naperville (Illinois) NCTV17: Diveheart Provides Safe Activities for Adaptive Divers to enjoy the wonders of the aquatic world (video) The purpose of Diveheart is to provide and support educational sc...
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Diving In – Organization Offers Free Scuba Lessons for People with Disabilities
January 2, 2019by Katrina J.E. Milton The MidWeek (DeKalb, Illinois) SYCAMORE – Barb Castritsis of Sycamore was learning to become a certified scuba diver, but had to stop when she learned she was pregnant with he...
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Cozumel, Mexico: Channel 10 TV Cozumel Talks to Diveheart About Adaptive Scuba Training
December 14, 2018Channel 10 TV Cozumel features Diveheart Executive Director Tinamarie Hernandez as she walks viewers through Diveheart Adaptive Scuba training in Cozumel Mexico. Watch video on Youtube....
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Nonprofits, businesses create beneficial collaborations to better communities
December 13, 2018by Jim Elliott Daily Herald (Chicago) The collaboration between for profit businesses and organizations in the nonprofit world is part art and part science. In today’s climate of corporate citiz...
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No Arms, No Legs, No Worries
December 13, 2018NewsUSA One might not think that someone with no arms and no legs could swim, much less scuba dive, but with the help of one non-profit organization based in the Chicagoland area, children, veterans a...
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TEAM UP – A UNIQUE PARTNERSHIP TO STUDY THE EFFECTS OF SCUBA DIVING ON PEOPLE WITH AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDERS
December 10, 2018Team Up A Unique Partnership to Study the Effects of Scuba Diving on People with Autism Spectrum Disorders by Mike Ellis Hinsdale Magazine Many partnerships between people from different organizations...
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Diveheart Malaysia: Diving Without Legs
November 27, 2018Selam Tanpa Kaki Majalah: Diving Without Legs (video) An inspirational video from Diveheart Malaysia. Watch video on Youtube...
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M&J Paving Hosts Fundraiser For Diveheart
November 24, 2018The power of partnership shined again when M & J Paving hosted a major fundraiser to benefit Diveheart at Maggiano’s in Oakbrook Illinois. Both M & J Paving and Diveheart are Vistage members...
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Diveheart Texas: Adaptive program helps people with disabilities learn to scuba dive
September 12, 2018by Teresa Woodard, WFAA (ABC TV-8), Fort Worth, Texas “You don’t know that you can’t do it until you try it and you find out that you can,” said a paralyzed veteran learning to...
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Sarawak, Malaysia: Pengalaman menyelam skuba oleh pesakit patah tulang belakang (video)
September 4, 2018Diveheart Malaysia KUCHING 26 Ogos – Seorang belia yang mengalami patah tulang belakang sejak dua tahun lalu kelihatan gembira setelah menyertai sesi percubaan menyelam skuba sebagai hidroterapi...
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Malaysia: Diveheart Borneo program in Kuching, Sarawak (video)
September 4, 2018Premier Marine and Scuba Centre Diveheart Borneo program in Kuching Sarawak with DiveHeart Coordinator, Mr Ernest C Teo and Premier Marine Scuba Centre Kuching. The Dive Experience program was the 1st...
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Borneo Post (Malaysia): Diveheart gives hope to spinal injury patient
September 3, 2018by Lim How Pim, Borneo Post (Malaysia) KUCHING: Freddick Jilam, 26, lost mobility partially due to spinal injury resulting from a road accident about two years ago. He was bedridden for five months fo...
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POWER OF THE POOL
August 17, 2018POWER OF THE POOL By Annemarie Mannion Naperville Magazine (August 2018) Bill Bogdan cannot remember a time when he wasn’t in a wheelchair. The Mokena resident suffered neuroblastoma of the spine (a...
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WREX-TV13: Diveheart Scuba Offers Experience to Students with Disabilities
August 15, 2018WREX-TV13 Rockford, Illinois Diveheart comes to a pool at Boylan High School in Rockford, Illinois, to help students with disabilities. Scuba diving can be a way to enjoy being in the water from a dif...
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Newsmakers Making A Difference: Jim Elliott, Diveheart
July 24, 2018by Julie Mann CHICAGO (WBBM NEWSRADIO) — Diveheart is taking people with disabilities to new heights by taking them to new depths, underwater. Jim Elliot is the founder and President of the Dive...
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WBBM NewsRadio: Local Diver Watches Thai Cave Rescue – Comment from Jim Elliott (Diveheart)
July 23, 2018Local Diver Watches Thai Cave Rescue – Comment from Jim Elliott (Diveheart) WBBM News Radio 780AM 105.9FM WBBM News Radio’s Lisa Fielding reports. Comments from local scuba diving instruct...
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Engage Mag: COD Alumnus Jim Elliott, CEO of Diveheart
July 23, 2018Magazine of the College of DuPage (COD) IN THIS ISSUE From COD to CEO — Page 3 Jim Elliott’s Diveheart inspires adaptive divers to focus on abilities, not disabilities. COD alum and Diveheart foun...
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Former Apalachicola resident, diver reflects on Thai cave rescue saga
July 15, 2018Wilhelmina Stanton was brimming with excitement when she awoke to news of the cave-trapped Thai soccer team’s rescue Sunday. “I was jumping up and down — I was super excited,” she ...
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X-Ray Mag: Diveheart Malaysia Making Waves and Expanding
July 15, 2018Diveheart Malaysia has been making waves since the organization started regular, monthly, in-pool scuba training programs for persons with disabilities (PWD) trained by Diveheart Ambassador and funder...
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WGN-TV9: Local Veteran Brings Sea Statue to America – Then Finally Sees It
July 15, 2018WGN-TV9 It’s one of the most popular underwater tourist attractions in the world, a 9 foot statue of Christ located just below the ocean in the Florida Keys. The 400 pound bronze statue of Christ wa...
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Hinsdale Mag: Change of Scenery – Diveheart
July 15, 2018Issue: June 2018 Read full article on Hinsdale website...
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Local Dive Expert Weighs in On Thai Cave Rescue
July 10, 2018A local dive expert weighs in on the rescue that had the entire world watching. NBC 5’s Sabrina Santucci reports. (Published Tuesday, Jul 10, 2018) Click here to know more....
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The Power of Scuba Diving for People with Disabilities
July 9, 2018by Jay Shefsky WTTW Chicago People with disabilities have been proving for years that no sport is off-limits. And whether or not an athlete is disabled, every sport can offer physical and em...
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WDCB Doing Good: Underwater Therapy – Diveheart Radio Interview
July 1, 2018WDCB 90.9 FM Interview with Tina Marie Hernandez and Jim Elliott of Diveheart. Listen at Soundcloud site....
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Diving for Therapy – TEDx Naperville – Jim Elliott of Diveheart
June 19, 2018Diving for Therapy – TEDx Naperville – Jim Elliott of Diveheart After leaving a successful career in the media industry in 1996, Jim Elliot became a full-time volunteer by founding Divehea...
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Dive Into Life (WVOX Radio) – Diveheart Radio Interview
June 8, 2018Diveheart (with featured guest Rosemary Ciotti) – Radio Interview Dive Into Life (WVOX Radio) “Dive Into Life” is live every Thursday from 4-5 PM on 1460AM and worldwide at WVOX.COM....
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Diveheart offers people with disabilities life-changing experiences
May 29, 2018by Carole Jakucs, BSN, RN, PHN Nurse.com Diveheart offers people with disabilities life-changing experiences Rosemary Ciotti, MSN, RN, NP, knows firsthand what it’s like to live with a disability. S...
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VoyageLA: Meet Jim Elliott (interview)
May 28, 2018Meet Jim Elliott of Diveheart Voyage LA Today we’d like to introduce you to Jim Elliott. So, before we jump into specific questions about the business, why don’t you give us some details about you...
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Suburban diving program gives veterans pain relief, teamwork
May 8, 2018By Marie Wilson, Daily Herald Army veteran Kirk Williams knows the benefits of scuba diving through a nonprofit organization called Diveheart. So does Coast Guard veteran Kevin Cozzie. “The weig...
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Diveheart’s Jim Elliott on Steve Cochran Show (WGN Radio)
April 26, 2018Diveheart: Diveheart works to build confidence, independence and self-esteem in children, adults and veterans of all abilities through scuba diving, scuba therapy and related activities. Diveheart’s...
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Seniors Going Scuba Diving with Diveheart
March 19, 2018Schaumburg, Ill. By Erin Ivory, WGN9 Most senior citizens will do just about anything to avoid being hooked up to an oxygen tank, but 91-year-old Velma Robinson and her friend Helen signed up for it, ...
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Outback Chooses Diveheart As Community Partner
March 19, 2018The National Restaurant chain Outback Steakhouse celebrated the opening of their new Downers Grove location March 19, 2018 and chose Diveheart as their Charity of choice for their grand opening. This ...
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Diveheart Malaysia: In the News on Bernama News Channel
January 19, 2018Diveheart Malaysia Featured in Bernama News Channel BNC Morning Talkshow on 03 January 2018 with Riza Faisal PADI PWD Scuba Diver and Diveheart Malaysia Ambassador and PADI IDC Staff Instructor Hj. Sy...
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Diveheart is 2017 Charity of Choice for RIM Logistics
December 15, 2017One of the country’s number one logistics companies, RIM Logistics, selected Diveheart as their charity of choice for the year and not only provided financial and promotional support, but brought on...
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Sharecare: Meet Kerry Gruson, Retired Journalist
November 9, 2017Diveheart adaptive diver Kerry Gruson. Meet Kerry Gruson, a retired journalist for The New York Times that we had the honor of featuring in our latest episode of Sharing Care. In 1974, Kerry wa...
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Sharing Care – Diveheart
October 31, 2017In 2001, Jim Elliott founded Diveheart , a non-profit dedicated to helping people with disabilities through scuba-therapy. Want to check out and share the newly released Dr. Oz/Sharecare feature about...
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how Veterans with disabilities benefit from Scuba Therapy?
October 31, 2017Sunday’s ABC 7 feature on how Veterans with disabilities benefit from Scuba Therapy? our purpose is to provide scuba diving programs to helps veterans, adults and children with disabilities with...
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Why did this veteran choose Diveheart training ?
October 31, 2017Why did this veteran choose Diveheart training when he became an Adaptive Scuba Instructor? Check out the upcoming issue of Sport Diver Magazine to find out why! You can do it too.Find out more...
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WGN Radio Interview with Gabe Spataro – Diveheart (Audio)
August 31, 2017Steve Cochran Show, WGN Radio, Chicago Steve Cochran interviews diver, disabled veteran and local legend Gabe Spataro. Diveheart’s Jim Elliott also joins in. Watch video on Youtube....
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Diveheart Opens New Worlds with Adaptive Scuba Therapy
June 19, 2017Cure 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....
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Paralyzed Barefoot Water Skier Goes Scuba Diving (Girls that Scuba)
March 24, 2017Paralyzed 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...
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Skeleton Key Hosts Fundraiser For Diveheart
March 10, 2017A 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 Divehea...
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Deepest pool in the world may be built in Chicago area
February 13, 2017Chicago 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...
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Distinguished Alumni: Jim Elliott (The Courier – DuPage College student newspaper)
November 21, 2016Jim 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 att...
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COD Distinguished Alumni Award
November 10, 2016Diveheart 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 hi...
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Diveheart’s Dive Therapy (Out Front Magazine)
November 4, 2016Download 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 w...
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Listen: Half Century Later, Diver Revisits Statue He Helped Place (WLRN Miami S. Florida)
August 30, 2016By 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...
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Diving Past Boundaries: Scuba as Therapy (CNN / Great Big Story)
August 30, 2016At 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 pote...
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REAL-LIFE SUPERHEROES of SCUBA DIVING | ScubaDiving.com
August 18, 2016by 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...
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Diveheart Featured in Dive Log Magazine (Australasia)
June 21, 2016Diveheart Diving for the Disabled presentation and demonstration at the TWI facility in Shah Alam, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Download the PDF DiveLog Magazine’s website...
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Diveheart Featured in Emirates Diving Association (EDA) Magazine
June 20, 2016The Diveheart team is featured in the Emirates Diving Association EDA Magazine June 2016 issue on the Diveheart Scuba Experience program with Kids Scuba held at the TWI facility in Shah Alam, Malaysia...
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Relevant Radio – Interview w/ Diveheart’s Jim Elliott
May 23, 2016(April 25, 2016) Chicago’s Relevant Radio interviews Diveheart founder Jim Elliott....
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TINAMARIE HERNANDEZ INTRODUCES PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES TO UNDERWATER WORLD OF SCUBA DIVING
May 11, 2016Tinamarie Hernandez Introduces People with Disabilities to Underwater World of Scuba Diving It takes an extraordinary type of scuba diver to safely accompany someone with a physical or cognitive disab...
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Malaysia: Kids Scuba with DiveHeart Training Disabled Divers
April 1, 2016Malaysia TV1, Morning Talkshow “Selamat Pagi Malaysia” featuring the In pool scuba Tryouts with the DiveHeart Team, Kids Scuba Dive Team and People With Disability PWD held at the TWI Divi...
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ABC7 – Diveheart Video
March 1, 2016Sunday, 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 th...
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Diveheart Empowers People With Disabilities Through Scuba Diving (Success Magazine)
January 14, 2016After Jim Elliott helped his blind daughter learn to ski, he was so inspired by her new skills and free spirit that he ultimately decided to focus his life’s work on helping people with disabilities...
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Diveheart article on Ocean Geographic Explorer
January 11, 2016Diveheart, a non-profit 510 (c) 3 organization, was founded in 2001. The vision was to build confidence and independence and self esteem in children, adults and veterans with disabilities through scub...
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Can You Dive If You Have Cerebral Palsy and You Are Blind?
November 16, 2015(Article from Miss Scuba / MissScuba.com) DIVEHEART Says Yes! My name is Ashley and I am 27 years old. I first got introduced to diving and Diveheart in 2008. From the very first time in the pool, I k...
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DiveBar’s ROOT Project – Restoring Our Oceans Together
November 10, 2015(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...
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630 Chamber Awards: Nonprofit
September 17, 2015Diveheart was selected as the top honoree for it’s community contribution in the non profit category. Working with for profit and other non profit chamber members in the community, Diveheart has...
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The Blind Sport Podcast – Blind Scuba Diving
August 29, 2015Jim outlines the objectives of Diveheart and shares his experiences of how diving has positively effected people with a variety of disabilities and of a wide range of ages. He explains how with adapte...
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ESPN – Beyond Sports Interview w/ Diveheart
August 25, 2015Hannah Stanley interviews Tinamarie Hernandez, the Executive Director of Diveheart, on the Beyond Sports program on ESPN 1000. The interview was on September 28, 2014....
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CNN Español (Spanish) – Under the Sea We are All Equal (En el fondo del mar somos todos iguales)
August 15, 2015Under the Sea, We Are All Equal En el fondo del mar somos todos iguales Disability is no obstacle for youth and veterans … La discapacidad no es impedimento para que los jóvenes y veteranos buc...
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Seize Your Business podcast interview – Jim Elliott
August 7, 2015Seize Your Business podcast interview featuring Jim Elliott of Diveheart: Getting the Message Out....
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Here’s Help Radio Show segment
August 3, 2015South Florida’s Here’s Help Radio Show segment featuring Jim Elliott of Diveheart. July 31, 2015 (first 18 minutes)...
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WGN Interview: Diveheart unlocks the therapeutic experience of scuba diving
July 28, 2015Jim Elliott, Founder and President of Diveheart joins Rick Kogan on WGN’s radio program After Hours to discuss the organization’s mission of providing a physically and psychologically therapeu...
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Gabe’s Story: The Man Behind Key Largo’s Underwater Christ Statue
July 18, 2015With this year marking the 50th anniversary of the submersion of the “Christ of the Deep” statue off Key Largo, Gabe Spataro knew he had to make a dive to honor it. After all, Spataro, an ...
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Wounded warriors tend to ailing Florida coral reefs
June 29, 2015Wounded 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 organize...
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Event Allows Disabled Residents To Scuba Dive at Aquatic Center
April 4, 2015A Cherokee High School student is using a required project as a way to give back to others. Jack Wareham is organizing an event to allow Cherokee County special needs residents an opportunity to scuba...
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John Hopkins Research on Scuba Therapy
November 23, 2014Scuba Therapy Research is becoming very hot, and I believe it is going to revolutionize rehabilitation. Below is a news story that ran in the Washington Post last week about the John Hopkins researc...
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Moving Picture: Ex-Exec Gives Freedom of Scuba Diving to Disabled
November 18, 2014By Mark Welsh, The Daily Herald Ryan O’Toole describes it as “the greatest feeling in the world.” O’Toole is talking about scuba diving. Actually, he’s typing, not talkin...
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Diveheart offers scuba diving opportunities for individuals with disabilities
November 8, 2014From the basics of cleanliness to soaking in hot tubs to alleviate aches, water has been known to have soothing, healing properties. But for scuba divers at Downers Grove-based Diveheart, water has a ...
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Diveheart Brings Disabled Diver Training to San Francisco
October 23, 2014On Thursday, October 16, Diveheart held a fundraising event at the beautiful Aquarium of the Bay in San Francisco. Founder Jim Elliott, Executive Director Tinamarie Hernandez, and ...
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Jim Elliott – “Making A Difference”
October 14, 2014ACTOR & SECOND CITY COMEDY VETERAN Brendan Sullivan (rt) joined Northern Star Alumni President Elect Kevin Sheldon (cntr) and Diveheart president Jim Elliott October 10th, along with dozens of rep...
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Diveheart provides thrills for disabled
August 19, 2014Diveheart — founded in 2001 by Chicago media executive Jim Elliott to train people with all sorts of disabilities to become scuba divers — has expanded its operation to South Florida in the past s...
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Raising Awareness for Adapted Scuba: A Case Report
June 19, 2014View or Download the Report (PDF) A case study was done by Mark Cole and Rachel Smith, at Western Illinois University, to demonstrate how implementing an adapted scuba program can contribute to just, ...
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Autism/Scuba Therapy Research Unveiled At International Adaptive Scuba Symposium
May 28, 2014Researchers, scuba instructors, therapists and individuals with disabilities gathered Friday February 14th during an International Adaptive Scuba Symposium hosted by the Midwest’s Largest consum...
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DiveHeart: Following Your Passion
May 24, 2014I haven’t met Jim Elliott of Diveheart yet but we plan to meet soon for a cup of coffee at my favorite coffee shop in Lantana. I heard about Jim after a walk across the bridge and through ...
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WPBF TV 25 PALM BEACH FLORIDA
May 10, 2014Palm Beach Fundraiser benefits Diveheart programs in south Florida...
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Diveheart introduces scuba diving to help physically and mentally challenged
March 27, 2014After seeing how much snow skiing helped boost the self-esteem of his daughter, who is legally blind, Jim Elliott decided to use his sport of choice — scuba diving — to help others with illnesses ...
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They’re buoyed by going under water
February 26, 2014Jordan Thomas was uncertain about his first scuba diving class at The Centre of Elgin’s pool, said his parents, Steve and Gina Thomas. Just before getting into the water, he started asking his dad i...
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Marine Veteran in Southern California stands for first time since his injury
July 3, 2013Marine 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 ...
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A Dive into the Past | Miami Herald
May 30, 2013By 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 abo...
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Diveheart makes dreams come true at the Aquarium of the Pacific
February 22, 2013Alex 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 Div...
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Free Fall – Alex Calvo
February 9, 2013Free Fall (narrated by Lauren Hutton) 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 fr...
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Diveheart President Wins Volunteer of the Year Award
September 23, 2012Diveheart president/founder Jim Elliott received The Classy Award for Volunteer of the Year on September 22nd. The CLASSY Awards is the largest philanthropic awards ceremony in the country, celebratin...
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CNN/HLN GOLD STAR MILITARY DIVEHEART FEATURE
May 31, 2012Gold Star families who’ve lost loved ones join veterans with disabilities on a Diveheart life changing scuba adventure trip...
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FREE FALL DOCUMENTARY
February 22, 2012Documentary narrated by Hollywood actress Lauren Hutton...
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NCHPAD Diveheart Feature
May 4, 2011Jim Elliott of Diveheart (NCHPAD) (Video) by National Center on Health, Physical Activity & Disability (NCHPAD) May 2011 Jim Elliott of Diveheart discusses the organization and its mission of usin...
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Diveheart Receives Glenn McIntyre Heritage Award
February 4, 2011Jim Elliott, founder and president of Diveheart of Downers Grove, received the Glenn McIntyre Heritage Award at Aquarium of the Pacific’s 8th Annual Festival of Human Abilities on January 30. The ...
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Testimonial – Darrell Young
January 2, 2010Dear Diveheart & Friends/Buddies, Once again it gives me pleasure to offer you a gratitude of thanks for all that you have done. As some of you may know I am a paraplegic diver who has been with t...
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Born without arms, Jessica Cox Learns to fly again, this time in the water
August 5, 2009Jessica Cox, from Tucson Arizona, is a pilot and nationally recognized motivational speaker. She has faced challenges that make most of our daily woes look minuscule in comparison. Her quest has broug...
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DIVE PORTAL FEATURES DIVEHEART AT MALL OF AMERICA AQUARIUM
June 16, 2009John Chatterton and Richie Koler hosts of Dive Portal feature Diveheart and adaptive scuba during a dive at the Mall of America aquarium in Minnesota...
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CBS 23 TV HELP FOR VETERANS WITH DISABILITIES
May 15, 2009Wisconsin veterans with disabilities get pain relief through scuba therapy with Diveheart...
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TELEMUNDO TV 52 AQUARIUM OF THE PACIFIC & DIVEHEART
May 14, 2009Diveheart trained instructors & divemasters from the Aquarium of the Pacific work with participants with disabilities at USC pool...
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CLTV NEWS COVERS DIVEHEART DURING HURRICANE DELAY
May 14, 2009During a hurricane delay in Florida Diveheart makes the best use of time with patients from Shriners Hospital for Children at a local Chicagoland pool...
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ABC 7 TV AT SHRINERS HOSPITAL
May 14, 2009Young patients with disabilities at Shriners Hospital for Children learn from Diveheart about zero gravity...
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CBS TV 4 CORAL GABLES DIVEHEART FEATURE
May 14, 2009Young people with disabilities try scuba with Diveheart at the historic Venetian pool in Coral Gables Florida...
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DICOVERY JONES DOCUMENTARY ON DIVEHEART
September 7, 2007Discovery Jones TV Series features Diveheart and Scuba Therapy in Cozumel Mexico while on a Diveheart life changing scuba adventure trip....
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