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 The Dive Pirates Foundation will take six recently trained adaptive scuba divers to Cayman Brac June 7. Three returning adaptive divers and 38 certified divers will join them.
“This is the fourth annual trip,” said foundation co-founder Barbara Thompson. “What is most rewarding to me is to see past students come back year after year. We’ve given them an outlet to explore a sport with their families, with able-bodied divers, and it has become a part of their life.”
The newly trained adaptive divers are Dawn Halfaker, US Army retired (amputee), of Washington, D.C.; Timothy Jones, USN retired (quadriplegic), of Houston; Kelly Knight (paraplegic) of Corpus Christi, Texas; Eric Lantz (paraplegic) of Houston; Veronica Padilla (double amputee) of Albuquerque, N.M.; and Nathan Gonzalez, USMC retired, of Boerne, Texas.
Returning adaptive divers are Shawn Unruh, USMC retired (paraplegic), and Leland Walker, USN retired (quadriplegic), both of Albuquerque and Peter Gamble, USN retired (paraplegic), of Tucson.
On a separate trip planned later this summer, the Dive Pirates Foundation will return to Cayman Brac to train Rick Dixon, a local 14 year old with spina bifida. The foundation will provide all equipment and training for him and three diving companions who are teachers at the teen’s school.
The Dive Pirates Foundation is a nonprofit organization dedicated to bringing scuba diving to persons with disabilities and joining them with the mainstream of divers. Its vision is to create a community of adaptive divers that will dive and travel in the mainstream world of scuba diving through education and overcoming obstacles. For more information about the foundation or the trip to Cayman Brac, go to .
Pictured above are Eric Lantz and Christopher Newman.< Additional Resources:
Dive Pirates Foundation
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