Looking For Amputee Divers

[Triple Knot]

Hi, my name is Brian Dery of Triple Knot Productions in Tampa, Florida.

I am a film maker and I produce motivational and inspirational documentaries about people who overcome their disabilities.

I am a huge scubda diver but in all my years and travels have not yet met an amputated diver.

I am currently looking for one who is very energetic, out going, and personable and not to mention not afraid to be on camera.

I am doing a documetary about a special subject and finding a diver or maybe a few divers who fit that description would tie in nicely.

Prefer the Tampa Bay area.

Please check out my website at www.tripleknotproductions to see the docs I have completed so far and the awards we have won and a little bio on myself.

I don't ask for money. I was once paralyzed and was told I would never walk again and hey, I beat that and am walking and feel that my calling in life is to tell the motivational and inspirational story of people.

If you have ANY questions or concerns, please feel free to email me personally at Brian@tripleknotproductions.com.

Please help!

Thank you.

 

[fisheyeview]

You should post this in the Divers with Disabilities forum.

http://www.scubaboard.com/forumdisplay.php?f=346

 

[wild bull]

check out WWW.hsascuba.com they work with all kinds of disabilities.

 

[carolrose]

There were a couple of articles in Scuba Diving magazine recently about veterans who had lost limbs and were scuba diving. I believe HSA was one of the groups who worked with these divers, and Dive Heart was another.

 

[BeachJunkie]

I had the pleasure of diving with some last month. The Wounded Warriors foundation is based here at Ft. Campbell and is made up of wounded soldiers. Nancy McPherson (not sure on the spelling of the last name) runs it and it is excellent. She's an amazing woman. The basic premis of it is that local instructors and others volunteer thier time to teach these wounded soldiers how to dive. They did a fund raising treasure hunt at cerulean quarry last month and it was excellent. Some of the members are amputees and other a parapalegic and so on. Great group of guys and very motivating being around them and seeing how they handle things. If you want more information you can get it at http://www.underwaterwarriors.org/ Email nancy and see what she has to say. If I see her before that I'll mention something to her about it.

 

[h2odragon1]

www.diveheart.com they are having a training session in Miami on Sept. 10th-13th. this training session is for "able" divers to train to assist Disabled divers.

 

[robint]

contact A1 Scuba in Denver - we were in Bonaire in June and they were taking about 20 disabled divers there.