The Downers Grove based nonprofit Diveheart has just helped bring adaptive scuba and scuba therapy to Salt Lake City Utah. Since 2001 Diveheart has helped start up over 50 other nonprofits around the world and Just Breath Adaptive Scuba in Salt Lake City is the latest 501 C3 that now is able to help individuals with disabilities using the Diveheart adaptive scuba training program.
A local Utah Fox TV affiliate put together this news story during the recent Diveheart/ Just Breath Adaptive Scuba training event at an underground warm water spring in Midway Utah called the Homestead Crater, a geothermal hot spring nestled inside a 55-foot tall limestone dome, providing ideal conditions for a comfortable and accessible diving experience. Three weeks ago, Jim Elliott, founder, and president of Diveheart invited and sponsored national motivational speaker and wheelchair user, Nate Ogden, and his family from Boise Idaho to come to do their openwater scuba certification together.
Elliott first met the Ogdens when Diveheart was asked to take Nate on his first ever Shark Dive in the Bahamas for a Utah based BYU TV show called “Random Acts”
About Diveheart:
Founded in 2001, Diveheart is a is a 501 (c)3 non-profit organization dedicated to providing adaptive scuba diving programs to children, adults, and veterans with disabilities. With a mission to help individuals “Imagine the Possibilities” in their lives, Diveheart strives to build confidence and independence through scuba diving. More information at www.diveheart.org
