Help a old lady out

[Rob9876]

I've not done any diving in Asia, but I'll add a few items that I've encountered that might be helpful for warm water diving in the Caribbean:

• Dive Experience in St. Croix lists on their website that they accommodate "handicap divers" and details ways that they can assist divers with those needs.
• Roberta's Shack in Cozumel lists Adaptive Diving on their website, and appears to have done events with LifeWaters, and adaptive scuba organization.
• While it sounds like your mom won't need the full adaptive diver treatment, at least knowing a dive op has that capability may help with finding suitable boats, lifts, etc. To that end, it may also help to check out the trips/events that these 2 other adaptive scuba organiztions do, to see what locations they go to and what dive ops they use:
  • Diveheart - in addition to that link, their Facebook page does mention a trip to Malaysia
  • Dive Pirates - also see where they held their past events

 

[Tippytoes12]

Not sure that you should label you mother as old ! The Philippines and Indonesia have ladders that far easier to use than the little zodiac ladders. More and more people with more birthdays, having recovered from surgeries or cancer treatments are diving for longer, which is great for them and great for the dive industry. Removing and or donning equipment in the water is not at all uncommon. The Maldives liveaboards have a little mini version of the liveaboard that are very easy to use. Just give the crew a bigger trip and it’s win win for everybody.

 

[txdamselfish]

To add on to Brad’s post, check out disability dive orgs/ clubs in your area. Here in North Texas we have Adapt-able Scuba, usually they have a few trips per year where a accessible hotel & boat are part of the trip, but trained divers to assist depending on the need are there too.
Adapt-able crew are going to Cozumel and Carmen Brac this year.
Events & Trips - Adapt-Able Foundation