Diveheart Adaptive Scuba Instructor and Dive Buddy

Diveheart promotes an Adaptive Dive Team protocol so everyone has the same fundamental knowledge. This manual is targeted to Adaptive Scuba Instructors, Adaptive Dive Buddies and introduces the new Advanced Adaptive Dive Buddy certification. It encompasses the best practices in the industry and will serve as a dynamic field manual for dive professionals and dive buddies working with individuals with a variety of abilities. Diveheart Adaptive Scuba Instructors will use this manual, along with the open water course materials of their certifying training agency to teach individuals with disabilities how to dive, and will also use this manual to train eligible divers to become specially certified to serve as a member of an Adaptive Dive Team.

Less than one percent of the world's population has tried scuba diving. Less than one percent of the diving community works with people with disabilities. A very small percentage of that adaptive dive community works with individuals with virtually any disability and only one organization does all of the above and promotes and facilitates adaptive scuba, the business of adaptive scuba and ground-breaking research surrounding scuba therapy, around the world. That organization is Diveheart.