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Adaptive divers, buddies, instructors, volunteers, families, and supporters for a shared week of diving, adventure, and community.
Explore our trip videos from across the years and see how the Dive Pirates experience has grown, from our earliest adventures in Cayman Brac to more recent trips throughout the Caribbean and beyond.
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2024: Celebrating 20 years of Dive Pirates, The Next Wave returns to Cayman Brac to follow another group of adaptive divers, buddies, and supporters as they experience the confidence, connection, and freedom that make the Dive Pirates community so special. By Cody Broadway
2023: After years of travel restrictions, Dive Pirates returned to Cayman Brac and the warm Caribbean waters that have played such an important part in the Foundation’s story, bringing adaptive divers, buddies, and the wider Pirate community together once again. By Cody Broadway
2022: Dive Pirates made its first group trip to Bonaire, where recipient Jason Kelley joined returning Pirates for a week of diving and adventure at Dive Flamingo Beach Resort, discovering why the island has earned its reputation as a diver’s paradise.
2022: With international travel still presenting challenges, the Pirates returned to Key Largo and Rainbow Reef for another week of warm-water diving, bringing recipients, buddies, returning Pirates, and supporters together closer to home.
2021: When COVID-19 disrupted international travel, Dive Pirates changed course for Key Largo. Getting there wasn’t always straightforward, but the crew came together for a much-needed return to diving, adventure, and the friendships that make every Pirate trip memorable.
2019: The Pirates returned to Cayman Brac in 2019 for another Siren’s Song adventure, bringing adaptive divers, buddies, returning recipients, volunteers, and supporters together for a week that celebrated diving, friendship, and life beyond injury.
2018: Twice the adventure meant twice the opportunity to dive in 2018, as Dive Pirates brought recipients, buddies, returning Pirates, and supporters together for two trips filled with new experiences, friendships, and plenty of time underwater.
2017: The Year of the Patriot Pirate took Dive Pirates farther afield, with adventures in Cayman Brac, Cozumel, and Hawaii creating new opportunities for adaptive divers and their buddies to explore, build confidence, and share the freedom of diving.
2016: Dive Pirates doubled the adventure in 2016 with two back-to-back trips to Cayman Brac, giving recipients, buddies, returning Pirates, and supporters even more opportunities to dive together and enjoy the community that has grown around the Foundation.
2015: Dive Pirates launched its 2.0 adventure in 2015, exploring accessible diving opportunities in Utila, Kona, Cozumel, and Cayman Brac while sponsoring 14 recipients and their dive buddies on new adventures beyond the Foundation’s traditional destinations.
2014: Dive Pirates celebrated its 10th annual trip by bringing 11 new recipients and seven returning Pirates to Cayman Brac for a week of diving, camaraderie, and adventure at Brac Reef Beach Resort with Reef Divers II.
2013: Eight new recipients joined more than 80 Pirates, buddies, friends, and supporters in Cayman Brac for a moving week of diving that celebrated determination, recovery, friendship, and the opportunity to experience life from an entirely new perspective.
2012: The eighth annual trip sold out in just three days, bringing eight new recipients and ten returning Pirates to Cayman Brac for a week of diving, friendship, and shared adventure captured by Dive Pirate and professional photographer Curtis DeGidio.
2011: The seventh annual trip brought ten new recipients and ten returning Pirates to Cayman Brac for the Foundation’s largest trip to date, celebrating several firsts while putting the experiences and personalities of the new adaptive divers firmly in the spotlight.
2010: Eighty-two travellers headed to Cayman Brac in 2010, including nine new adaptive divers and six returning recipients. Five dive boats supported a week filled with diving, underwater photography, camaraderie, and appreciation for the volunteers and partners who made it possible.
2009: After Hurricane Paloma devastated Cayman Brac, Dive Pirates returned as some of the island’s first tourists, bringing 63 travellers, including 12 new adaptive divers and two returning recipients, back to the reefs and a community rebuilding after the storm.
2008: Dive Pirates returned to Cayman Brac in 2008 with 46 divers, including six new adaptive students and three returning recipients, for a week of diving, Pirate camaraderie, and a closing celebration honouring the newest members of the Dive Pirates community.
2007: In 2007, Dive Pirates brought new and returning adaptive divers to Cayman Brac while helping expand accessibility beyond the trip itself, including adaptive instructor training for Reef Divers staff and a commitment from the resort to upgrade accessible accommodations.
2006: Dive Pirates joined the Cody Unser Second Great Scuba Adventure in Nassau, bringing eight adaptive divers together with buddies, instructors, and supporters for five days of diving with Stuart Cove, including wreck dives, shark encounters, and plenty of shared adventure.
