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Company description The Eels on Wheels Adaptive Scuba Program provides people with the opportunity to dive at their own ability level by certifying divers through the Handicapped Scuba Association (HSA).
With resources from all the regulatory bodies governing Scuba diving, this program is able to meet the needs of virtually anyone wishing to be a SCUBA diver regardless of any physical or mental limitations.
We are a registered 501(c)3 not-for-profit organization.
The Eels on Wheels started in 1991 as a group of individuals associated with St. David`s Rehabilitation Hospital Aquatic Program in Austin, TX. There, Tim Skelly, H.S.A. Instructor Tom McCoy, and others were teaching people with special needs and/or disabilities how to adapt and learn the sport of SCUBA Diving. Following a dive trip to Bonaire, the Eels on Wheels organization was formed to promote the sport of Adaptive Diving.
Adaptive Diving is just that: making the adaptations needed so that anyone, regardless of circumstances, can safely learn and participate in SCUBA diving.
The Handicapped SCUBA Association certifies the instructors, divers, and dive buddies. HSA utilizes three levels of certification:
* Level A divers are certified to dive with one person.
* Level B divers need two divers with them.
* Level C divers must be accompanied by two divers with one being a rescue diver.
The Eels consist of both ``Able Bodied`` and ``Adaptive`` divers, although everyone involved considers themselves Adaptive Divers because of the training they all share. Eels on Wheels membership includes persons with disabilities, health-care professionals, and volunteer divers with specialized instruction as dive buddies.
Location description: Discovery Scuba is an opportunity for those with a physical disability to try scuba diving in a controlled environment, usually a pool.
When it`s your turn to try scuba, we`ll take you to the pool and help you if you need help into the pool, put scuba equipment on you like a mask, a BC (buoyancy compensator), and a reg (regulator), and depending on your level of ability, you may put the equipment on while on the side of the pool or we may put it on you once you`re in the water.
The instructor will spend a few minutes adjusting the equipment to make sure it fits your form well. He or she will then spend a few minutes explaining the equipment, the signals each of you will use to communicate under water and letting you know what to expect.
Once you`re in the in water, your instructor will explain how to breathe from a reg and let you try while you are still above the water. While you`re still in the shallow end of the pool, you and your instructor will duck below the water`s surface to give you a chance at breathing through the reg in the water. The first time you`ll be under water for only a few seconds. Then the instructor will answer your questions and make sure you`re comfortable before continuing on.
You`ll then go under the water and swim around a little. The instructor will help you move around the water as much or little as you need it. How deep you go and how long you stay down depends on how comfortable you are. You won`t be asked to do anything you`re not yet comfortable with.
A Discovery Scuba session can last 20 to 30 minutes for each participant depending on the number of participants.
You need to bring a towel, a swimsuit, and a Parent if you are between 12 and 18 (you need to be at least 12 years of age to participate in a Discovery Scuba event.)

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Providing assistance with training and worldwide dive trip planning for physically challenged divers. Their Adaptive Scuba Program certifies divers through the Handicapped Scuba Association.

Contact information:

Street Address:
11900 Metric, Suite J-155
Austin
Texas
United States
78758
Spoken language(s): English
Open: from 09-00 till 17-00
Local time:  GMT - 6 Mexico, Monterrey, Guadalajara
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