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| mimimachine - Toronto Canada About Me: I am a new diver and I am also a paraplegic. I am working on getting my advanced open water certification this year. I have a spinal cord injury at T7-T8 which I got in 1998, when I was 17 years old, in a car accident caused by a drunk driver who hit me. I am now paralyzed from my mid-ribcage down and rely on a wheelchair. I love the freedom that scuba diving gives me as well as the tranquility I feel when I am underwater. I am always looking for ways to feel free of my chair and diving, to me, is the perfect way to do that.I am very active, and fiercely independent, and wish to spread to the message that life does end with spinal cord injury and that disability does not mean that you are helpless! I have an adaptive extreme sports blog at mimimachine.blogspot.com and hope to turn my dive experiences as a paralyzed person into a documentary to inspire other people with disabilities to dive. | |
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Gender | Female |
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Favorite Dive Gear | My Cressi webbed hand gloves are an essential piece of gear for me as they improve my underwater swimming efficiency since I can´t use fins. I also love my Sherwood Luna BCD which isperfect for us girls who are smaller in stature and use Sherwood´s Blizzard regulator. |
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Favorite Dive Locations | I am hoping to dive the Florida Keys, Bonaire, shark dives in Mexico, the Galapagos, and eventually do some polar dives! |
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Activities | Scuba diving, adaptive skiing, horseback riding, adaptive waterskiing and wakeboarding, murderball (wheelchair rugby), swimming |
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Interests | Travel, extreme sports, books, history, environmental/oceanic conservation, disability advocacy and spinal cord injury awareness |
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Favorite Music | Tori Amos and lots more |
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Favorite TV Shows | The National Geographic channel, Animal Planet (especially Whale Wars!) |
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Favorite Movies | Elizabeth, Murderball, Step Into Liquid, The Blue Planet series |
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Favorite Books | 100s of them! I am a book nerd! |
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Favorite Quotes | There is no such thing as "cant" |
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mimimachine's Dive Slate
You must be logged in to your Scuba.com account to write on the dive slate. Click here to create your own free account.  | Hi, if you like to dive around the world I am inviting you to see the first city in the continent of America, Santa Marta, at the foot of the tallest mountain in the tropic and a fortress build against the pirate´s attacks in Cartagena and dive along these two sites in the Colombian Caribbean, to do some spearfishing, photo, underwater video, wreck diving, etc., let me know the dates of your stay here to set you up and show you around, thanks
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 | hi! i got to use a DPV for the first time yesterday and i definitely want to buy my own, it made surface swims so much easier. photos are on my website/blog :-)
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 | Hello Mimimachine, something you could check into is an underwater scooter. That would let you get around underwater with ease. If you have any other questions just give one of our scuba instructor a call at 1.800.347.2822. Your Scuba.Com Team
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Me (and my webbed hand gloves since I cannot use fins) diving the J.C. Morrison wreck in Lake...
Me (exhaling) and my dive buddy (on the left) diving the J.C. Morrison wreck in Lake Simcoe.
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