[AMP-L] The Therapeutic Power of Scuba Diving

[Wayne Renardson]

via The Washington Post:

This is a very decent article [ed.]

Tracy Schmitt spent years trying to find a scuba instructor. She is a 
competitive sailor, skier and mountaineer, but each dive shop she 
approached refused to entertain the idea that she could be a capable 
student.  

"I had all of these conversations trying to be persuasive," Schmitt says. 
"Not even to get accepted but just to - pardon the expression - get a 
foot in the door."  

Schmitt was born a quadruple amputee. Her disability eclipsed her many 
achievements, such as captaining 110-foot ships in the eastern Atlantic,  
and the instructors assumed teaching her to dive would be impossible.

The rest of the story, with photos here:

https://tinyurl.com/ycny6var

Wayne R.