Tony, Can't wait for you to join us. We have 34 divers going to Cozumel in December with Dive Paradise where I've trained the instructors and divemasters. we'd love you to join us if you would like. i'll be conducting Diveheart Adaptive training for instructors and buddies in the afternoons, after our boat dives. Mike from Scuba Travel Ventures 1-800-298-9009
mike@scubatravelventures.com coordinates all our Cozumel trips ( 3 in 2016 ) and we conduct Diveheart Adaptive training on all of them. We have 7 divers with disabilities on this trip. We also do several trips to Key Largo through out the year as well as training in Chicago and around the world when the season permits. hope you can join us soon.
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Honestly, i didn't think there would be anything for a blind person in diving before I did the adaptive training. i've been guiding and teaching blind skiers since the 1980's and thought without visual references, it would be a waste of time
.boy was I wrong. Blind and visually impaired divers love it.
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AJ, It sounds like your adaptive certified with IAHD. I'd love to get your thoughts on the Diveheart Adaptive program. After years of training instructors under another adaptive agency, we decided to take many of the innovations and new adaptive dive team protocols that we developed at Diveheart and launch our own program. We hired the team that did the last 15 years of PADI and DAN training to help and launched our program at last year's DEMA. we'll be there again this year in booth 1449. if you're there please stop by. if not, here is a link to the Diveheart Adaptive training program.
Get Started | Diveheart We'd love your thoughts. And at Diveheart if an Adaptive diver needs help with one of the four key scuba skills as identified in our program they need a three person buddy team to accompany them. And at least two have to be Adaptive certified and one must be an Advanced Adaptive dive buddy, which is a new certification level that we've introduced in the Diveheart program.
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I've been teaching and guiding blind skiers since the 1980's and have taken everything i've learned on the ski hill and applied it to the Diveheart Adaptive instructor and buddy training program. would love your thoughts
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