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Paralysed scuba instructor holds Dubai diving course Oct 15, 2011 DUBAI // After a rock-climbing accident left Fraser Bathgate paralysed from the waist down, a doctor told him he was out of his mind for wanting to try scuba diving. “Are you really trying to kill yourself?” the doctor asked in 1992 when Mr Bathgate, who was confined to a wheelchair, sought a medical waiver to...
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26 December 2011 From Datchet Pontoon to the Bells of Ousley, Old Windsor Windsor based Aquatic Element Dive Club has adopted the Deptherapy Foundation as its charity for the year. The Foundation has been set up to work with British and American wounded armed service personnel who have been injured in service or during training. The aim is to use scuba diving as a revolutionary therapy to assist...
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“We few, we happy few, we band of brothers” Henry V’s Crispin Day’s Speech – Shakespeare Troop Dive 27 September – 4 October 2011 Scuba diving is fundamental to the Deptherapy experience but so are the social aspects of the programme and the latest trip to the Middle Keys in Florida was a prime example of the total Deptherapy package. Four British soldiers and two American Marines...
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