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Scuba Diving to Freedom

By Beth Carpenter, March 2, 2010 10:52 AM

This week's My Generation goes underwater to watch as scuba diving gives a few of the disabled their freedom back.
"Teaching them to fly... is what scuba's all about," Jim Elliott says. Elliott is the president of DiveHeart, a nonprofit that has been putting together these dives for disabled veterans and others who've lost physical capacities.
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