DEMA-Seminar

Adaptive Diving: Training Agencies Come Together

Adaptive Diving:  Training Agencies Come Together to Discuss Growing Community of Adaptive Divers Dive centers, operators, resorts, really the whole dive industry is now challenged to meet the needs and desires of a growing adaptive diving community, welcoming them to a very adaptable sport while also addressing standards and safety.  In a ground-breaking seminar sponsored…

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Pirates Down Under – Dive Pirates welcome four new chapters as it expands to Australia

Pirates Down Under – Dive Pirates welcome four new chapters as it expands to Australia A collaboration between RAID International, RAID US, the Dive Pirates Foundation, and Sargood on Collaroy. This collaboration expanded adaptive diving in Australia to four dive facilities and six instructors. Additonally, four people with disabilities now certified and enjoying the ocean around…

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Jeff Ward

  Retired Specialist (US Army) Jeff Ward A week after high school, Jeff Ward signed up for the Army. Overall, he spent two years with the Army and another six with the National Guard. Although the military offered many career paths, Jeff chose to follow his culinary passion. After serving in the Army mess hall, he…

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Bob and Eulene Wagner

Bob and Eulene Wagner were high school sweethearts, following each other to the University of Northern Colorado and through their 30-year teaching careers; Eulene taught elementary and Bob was a high school band director. Now enjoying retirement, they share something else, both have multiple sclerosis (MS).  Eulene, diagnosed in 1996, continues to work through pain and…

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Kevin Smith

Kevin Smith Kevin Smith heard about the Dive Pirates during his rehab at TIRR. After a motorcycle accident caused a complete spinal cord injury resulting in paraplegia. With a background in diving before his accident. Kevin signed up for a Try-Dive event with the Dive Pirates at Seanic Ocean Systems; an engineering company in Katy, Texas with a…