For divers with disabilities and PTSD, scuba is a form of therapy that inspires travels around the world.
Unser also pushed her doctors at Johns Hopkins Hospital and the Kennedy Krieger Institute to conduct a study on the neurological and psychological impact of diving.
While doctors recognized results of the small study were preliminary, they called the findings dramatic. Lee first discovered diving in 1994 while stationed in Panama. He returned to it through Patriot Scuba in 2012, finding that it helped immensely with his physical and psychological wounds over his 22 years of service.
Taradash adds, “The PTSD, traumatic brain injury — probably over half of our divers that we put through our program have the emotional scars.” Both he and Lee became certified PADI adaptive scuba instructors and Handicapped Scuba Association instructors. They travel and scuba with divers with disabilities in places such as the Georgia aquarium, the Bahamas and the Galápagos Islands.
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