A Dr.Louis Jankowski has been advocating SCUBA diving for cp for several
years. Here is a web page where he spoke at a UHMS chapter.
http://www.uhms-glc.org/jank.htm

He has written a booklet on the subject:
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Author:  Jankowski, Louis W.
Title: Teaching Persons with Disabilities to SCUBA Dive.

Abstract:   This booklet is designed to sensitize and inform the scuba
diving instructor on appropriate attitudes and successful methods for
teaching scuba diving to persons with physical disability. It addresses
misconceptions about people with disabilities and the importance of
effective two-way communication and mutual respect between instructors and
persons with impairments. A list of appropriate language to use in
describing a person with a disability is provided, along with definitions
of impairments, disabilities, and handicaps. The different needs of people
with spinal cord injuries, limb deficiencies, and cerebral palsy are then
discussed. Tips are provided for transferring divers in wheelchairs to a
swimming pool, the beach, or a dive boat. The need to modify the
traditional format for scheduling scuba classes to accommodate certain
participants with disabilities is also addressed, as well as the need for
divers to exercise vigorously, regularly, and frequently in order to
maintain their required level of physical fitness for diving. (CR)

Clearinghouse:   EC306439
Report Number:   ISBN-2-920117-23-8
Publication Date:   01/01/1995
Descriptive Note:   19p.

Availability:   Quebec Underwater Federation/F.Q.A.S. (Federation
Quebecoise des Activites Subaquatiques), 4545, ave Pierre-De Coubertin C.P.
1000, Succ. M Montreal (Quebec) Canada H1V 3R2; telephone: 514-252-3009;
fax: 514-254-1363.

Language: English
Publication Type:  010; 055

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The obvious question: And then what happened to these divers?

Does anyone know?



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"I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form
of tyranny over the mind of man." --Thomas Jefferson, an early advocate of
Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy.
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