Jim Elliott

Muscular Dystrophy entered Matt Johnson’s life at an early age. It progressed to the point where Matt’s life depended on his breathing with the...

In the mid 1980’s I started guiding and teaching blind children and adults to downhill ski. You see, my oldest daughter was born blind and...

Anna was born with no arms or legs. A term technically referred to as Tetra-amelia syndrome (TETAMS) is an extremely rare genetic disorder causing...

I had no burning desire to learn how to scuba dive, but as a young journalism student at the College of DuPage in Glen...

This year the Chicago Bears sent me something that I didn’t expect. You can imagine how pleasantly surprised I was when I received a package...

What is your favorite place to scuba dive? Well, after decades of teaching scuba diving, that’s a question I get a lot. And believe it or not, even though I’ve been diving on some of the most beautiful reefs in the world, one of my favorite dives was in a swimming pool.

From adaptive scuba dives to international film festivals, learn how filmmaker David Marsh turned Diveheart’s mission into inspiring documentaries.

Cancer of the spine at a very young age left Bill Bogdan with a spinal cord injury that would change his life forever. Because...

A Marine Veteran and scuba diving instructor, Andrew Ryal, was in my first Diveheart adaptive scuba instructor training class over 20 years ago. He...

My father was an Army veteran with disabilities. I grew up dodging wheelchairs at Hines Veterans Hospital in Maywood Illinois at a very young...