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Diveheart at Ghost Ships Festival in Milwaukee

Veterans with disabilities from the Milwaukee V.A. get a pre-dive briefing from Diveheart instructor Peggy Kurpinski during their scuba experience during the Ghost Ships Festival which ran March 5 & 6th.

THANK YOU VOLUNTEERS!

Diveheart Volunteers Gathered Sunday Feb 28th for the Annual Diveheart Volunteer Thank you Event. It was a chance for volunteers to get together for great food, fun and conversation …..and a chance for them to be recognized for their selfless hard work and dedication.

Special thanks to Our World Underwater Trade show donors: Scuba Travel Ventures http://www.scubatravelventures.com and Casa Del Mar Dive Resort in Cozumel http://www.casadelmarcozumel.com/ for their generous donation of a trip for two……and to Rick Stratton, of Midwest Dive News http://www.divenewsnetwork.com/ for the Wheel of Fortune fundraiser at his booth and subsequent donation to Diveheart.

Diveheart at Our World Underwater Trade Show

Diveheart volunteers come through again so that the 2010 Our World Underwater dive show is a huge success…..

The world’s first international adaptive scuba symposium was a smashing success during the 2010 Our World Underwater dive show …..

Pictured, some of the attendees gather for a group photo during the presentation by Rick Stratton Publisher of Midwest Dive News…..

Diveheart OWU event coordinator Dave Zigman and his team do an incredible job make the Diveheart booth look great at this year’s show.

Sharon Kutska brought her years of expertise at the GAP to bear to make the Diveheart booth merchandise look incredible

CNN Cover Diveheart

CNN producer Bill Kirkos interview Diveheart diver David Smolka who is totally blind but is an avid diver through the Diveheart program. CNN will be breaking their story about Diveheart in mid February in conjunction with a feature story about Diveheart in Money Magazine, which also comes out mid month.

Samantha Smolka, Dave’s daughter, is also visually impaired and tells the CNN news team about her moving scuba experience and how she will eventually become totally blind like her father and what it means to her to be able to scuba dive with him.