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Diveheart at Four Lakes in Lisle, IL

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Residents of Four Lakes Village in Lisle work with the Diveheart team as they go through their first scuba experience.  Diveheart reaches out into the community to help spread the word about adaptive scuba for those with disabilities and the team at Four Lakes is totally on board to help.

 

Disabled Dive Training at Naval Station Great Lakes

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Great Lake Navy base is again the backdrop October 14-15 for DMW (Diveheart Military Wounded) training with Navy corpsmen, swimmers and recruits.  Their hope is to train up to work with their comrades with disabilities coming back from conflict as well as any veteran with a disability.  Their training is long and challenging but their enthusiasm and perseverance rule the day.

 

Haigh Memorial Dive Raises Funds for Diveheart Military Wounded

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Tina Haigh, owner of Haigh quarry (www.haighquarry.com) once again shows her kindness and generosity as she presents a $3600 check to Diveheart to support its DMW (Diveheart Military Wounded) program that helps veterans with disabilities build confidence and independence through scuba diving.  Diveheart Military Wounded helps facilitate adaptive scuba programs for disabled veterans all over the country and most recently helped launch programs at Camp Pendleton, San Diego, South Los Angeles and Fort Lewis near Seattle Washington.   Diveheart will train active able bodied military as well as veterans with disabilities in Illinois who want to join the program as buddies with help from a grant from the Illinois Department of Veterans Affairs.  This year’s Jim Haigh Memorial Dive raised $7200 with the proceeds being given to support DMW and SUDS (Soldiers Undertaking Disabled Scuba). 

 

   

Diveheart Military Wounded Program Presses On

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DMW (Diveheart Military Wounded) diver and Marine veteran Greg Rodriguez (Center) is flanked by Marine leadership and team building buddy Gary Urbahn (right) and Diveheart President & Founder Jim Elliott Sunday June 14th at Haigh Quarry in Kankakee, IL.   The cool water didn’t deter Rodriguez who earlier this year joined DMW on a trip to the Key Largo, FL with other veterans with disabilities from Hines Veterans Hospital in Maywood, IL

 

Shriners Hospital for Children experience another Llife Changing Scuba Adventure

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Shriners Hospital for Children and Diveheart team up to bring young men with spinal cord injuries to the Florida Keys for a life changing scuba adventure trip to the Florida Keys July 31-Aug 6. 

 

The group will dive with Rainbow Reef in Key Largo, FL (http://www.rainbowreef.us) , visit the Florida Keys Community College in Key West (http://www.fkcc.edu/)  experience a dolphin encounter at the Dolphin Research Center (http://www.dolphins.org/)
   

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