Our Mission
Southwest Adaptive Divers mission is to empower those that have specific circumstances or impairments with the specialized support and training they need to enjoy the freedom and healing of the underwater world.
Freedom Underwater
Like a Sea Turtle, even though we may not all be able to move with grace and fluidity on land, everyone can move with weightlessness and freedom underwater.
Diving provides a powerful opportunity to experience an entire different side of the world. The trained professionals at Southwest Adaptive Divers can help those with disabilities and impairments to experience new ways of moving and sensing that do not exist on dry land.
The divers at Southwest Adaptive Divers are trained to help build a powerful experience for everyone.
- Veterans
- Those with PTSD and Anxiety
- Physical disability or handicap
- The visually impaired
- Deaf individuals
- Rehabilitation
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Plan and prepare
Safety is vitally important to having a good dive experience. This may mean getting clearance from your doctor. To get a jumpstart consider downloading and filling out our medical forms.
Please contact us if you have an questions and concerns. Our mission is to make diving accessable and adaptable to all.
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Work with and meet our dedicated diving team
At Southwest Adaptive Divers we promise to provide a powerful and meaningful dive experience that can overcome physical or mental circumstance or disability.
Please contact us by phone or email.
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Find the right dive buddies
Import to safe diving is your dive buddies. Southwest Adaptive Divers and our partner company Access Scuba will help to insure that your friends and family can participate in the dive experience by being certified.
Benefits
Diving has been proven to be an effective form of rehabilitation that greatly benefits individuals recovering from traumatic injuries. It provides freedom of movement in an almost weightless environment that cannot be found on dry land. Diving helps with improving physical condition, can diminish muscle spasms and has been shown to aid in reduced pain. Being underwater can also help calm and focus the mind benefiting those with PTSD and other mental and intellectual conditions. Scuba diving allows family and friends to participate in the person’s training, learning how to assist them with their challenges as well as supporting them in the educational aspect of the training. As more divers are trained they will become part of a network of other divers like themselves, building a strong support system. Being part of this unique dive community can improve the diver physically as well as emotionally and physiologically.
