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Help your dive buddy with a disability

January 10, 2019 | Program | Patrick

Speaker: Chris Azab

About the presentation

What techniques do you use to dive with people with disabilities, which can be physical or mental. This includes people who have a muscle disease, who are missing an arm or a leg, who are autistic, who have PTSD, who have suffered whiplash or who have poor vision. Above water these people need help, do they also need that help underwater? Put yourself in the position of the disabled diver and try adapted techniques for yourself. How do you actually teach someone with a disability? Become more aware and observant when diving with someone with a disability.

A mini workshop is also included during the presentation.

About the speaker

Chris Azab is a passionate Instructor Trainer. She always has 1 goal in mind and that is to bring divers to a higher level. Whether it concerns recreational diving or at a professional level, whether it concerns technical diving or adaptive techniques diving, Chris is all about learning to deal with the situation in a positive way and to benefit from it. For example, Chris has been working with various diving schools since 2010 where people with disabilities are welcome and where technical courses are also given. She conveys her passion to make people a better diver and that is her pride and her life.

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