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***ALSO SEE THE 'SAILING' SECTION FOR MORE ON BOATING*** 1990 views
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TRAVIS' MODIFIED FISHING BOAT 2200 views AUST
Video footage of the boat modifications done by 'Problem Management Engineering' in Aust for customer Travis (paraplegic SCI). It's the third story featured down the page.
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 ORGANISATIONS

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ACCESS REVOLUTION 1165 views CAN
Access Revolution improves quality of life for those who live with disabilities by promoting access to the outdoors, recreation and a connection to nature. We are a small social-impact business that strives to bring communities together and increase public awareness as to the importance of inclusive access to sacred and beautiful places.
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ERIE CANAL BOAT COMPANY 852 views USA
Located in the heart of the Village of Fairport, just 10 minutes east of the City of Rochester, The Erie Canal Boat Company offers customers of all ability, a relaxing Paddle, Peddle, or Pontoon Boat Rental on the Historic Erie Canal Waterway.
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MAKING TRAX NZ 1734 views NZ
Let us take the complications away. We are your one stop when it comes to adaptive adventure. Join us on your Ultimate Trip of a lifetime or get busy living with your personal Trax Experience. No stress of being denied or misinformed. We are a unique company for disabled run by disabled. Makingtrax is the link between client & company understanding both needs
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PACIFIC WIND CRUISES 663 views AUST
Pacific Wind Cruises is a Gold Coast based boat charter company owned and operated by Michael Brown. Michael is a quadriplegic and was wheelchair bound following an accident in 1995. Through driving ambition he achieved his goal of operating a charter boat business with the official launch in October 2017 when Channel 9 came out on the boat for the morning and did a story.
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THE LAST FRONTIERSMAN 2186 views USA
Dan McDowell owner of the Last Frontiersman is the winner of numerous awards for his wheelchair accessible boats, I encourage you if you plan to visit the Kenai Peninsula in Alaska to give Dan a call. Great local accommodations and plenty to do and very easy to get to and from Anchorage, AK. Having fished with Dan both during the Classic and other times I highly recommend his services. Doug
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TURNING POINT 'Life Beyond The Sidewalk' 1497 views USA
Turning POINT (Paraplegics On Independent Nature Trips) was founded in 1979 by Michael "Shorty" Powers. After an injury at age 17 left Shorty without the use of his legs, he began looking for opportunities to become involved in the outdoor recreational activities that he had always loved. He found no organized activities that were available to people who had major mobility impairments. Not willing to give up his love of fishing, kayaking, scuba diving and hunting, Shorty established Turning POINT to assure that outdoor activities were readily available to people with many types of physical challenges. Turning POINT is a nonprofit organization designed to teach people with mobility impairments the skills necessary to fully enjoy the outdoors, and to provide free or low cost activities. Turning POINT provides the encouragement and support needed for people who have major physcial challengnes in life to fully participate in the adventure of living.
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UK JUBILEE SAILING TRUST 2122 views UK
The JST is the only organisation in the world to be able to offer tall ship sailing holidays to people with physical disabilities.
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 PRODUCTS

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DISABLED FRIENDLY LEISURE BOATS 1011 views Europe
Our concept with leisure boats – special adapted to wheelchair users, people having difficulties in walking and persons with additional disability — is truly breaking news. At Klein Ponton Boat we share the opinion that you as a disabled citizen of course should have the same option of enjoying fantastic moments on the water. As a consequence we have set a huge focus on our niche production of disabled friendly leisure boats.For most disabled persons the accessibility to the boat is of outmost importance.
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WETWHEELS 1752 views UK
Building disabled people’s confidence. Wetwheels builds disabled people’s confidence by providing the opportunity to access the sea in a fun, safe, stimulating and rewarding way using specially modified, fully accessible powerboats. With the support of our donors and partner organisations we provide water-based activity experiences for disabled people on board our specially designed boats, from centres within local communities.
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WHEELCHAIR ACCESSIBLE BOAT BOARDING RAMPS 1922 views USA
Our wheelchair ramps are made for the marine environment. They are not land based ramps trying to be used on a vessel.
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 TOURS

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CRUISEABILITY 608 views AUST
We offer a unique and boutique cruising operation creating outdoor fun for everyone to enjoy including the elderly and people with a physical disability. We welcome you on board. Through this web site we aim to open the doors to Port Stephens and its history, with its unique outer islands, marine parks and conservation areas. There are no limits to finding out what nature has to offer.
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THE GAME CYCLE - YOUTUBE VIDEO website 
 So Much More than Just Upper Body Exercise. Get the excitement of playing Nintendo GameCube racing games while getting a great upper body workout! Speed is controlled by turning the arm cranks, and steering is controlled by tilting the cranks left and right. Adjustable resistance, hand grips, and height settings lets you customize your workout! 
 


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THE GAME CYCLE - YOUTUBE VIDEO



RAIDaptive DIVING website 
 The RAIDaptive program was designed to bring the sport of diving to persons with disabilities by adapting the RAID Open Water 20 course to the abilities demonstrated by the diver with disabilities. The RAIDAptive Course is designed to teach individuals with disabilities to become certified divers with the goal of using certified RAIDaptive Dive Buddies to compensate for those skills that they cannot independently perform. The student will be certified according to the following Designations:

Designation 1- The student must be able to perform all skills independently with the exception of Entries and Exits
Designation 2 - The student must be able to perform all skills independently with the exception of Entries, Exits, Emergency Ascents, Maintaining Positive Buoyancy at the surface by oral inflation of the BCD
Designation 3 - The student must be able to breathe continuously and monitor gas supply. The student will require assistance with all other aspects of diving.
To become a certified RAIDaptive Open Water diver, the students need to have basic swimming skills, be comfortable in the water, and should be in a good overall health, have a mature attitude, sound judgement and self-discipline to follow the guidelines that they will be taught for safe diving.
Medical clearance from a registered diving Doctor is also required

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JAIMEN HUDSON - 'THE VIEW IS BETTER FROM UP HERE!' website 
 I have always been passionate about the outdoors, as a youth my days were filled with activities like riding dirt bikes, skateboarding, surfing and scuba diving. Learning to dive at age 10 only added to my love of the ocean. In 2008 I had an accident that left me a quadriplegic and in 2014 I became interested in drone photography and videography, although I wasn't sure I would be able to use the remote controller due to my reduced hand function. Since then though I've been lucky to have my work featured in many prominent media outlets and publications and have also won the Western Australia 'Young Achiever Award' in 2018. I hope you enjoy what you see...!

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JAIMEN HUDSON - 'THE VIEW IS BETTER FROM UP HERE!'


TOM DOUGHTY - LAP GUITAR TUTORIALS website 
 These tutorials have been developed by Creative United and Tom Doughty to offer an introduction to playing Lap Guitar. Specially created to accompany workshops on his tour of the UK’s 12 Spinal Injury Units in early 2019, these tutorials are for anyone with limited upper limb movement.

Creative United is part of a consortium with OHMI, Drake Music, Youth Music and OpenUp Music, whose aim is to make music and musical instruments more widely available, particularly to disabled people for whom playing a conventional musical instrument may be difficult or impossible.



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TOM DOUGHTY - LAP GUITAR TUTORIALS


BJOERN ESER & 'THE ACTIVE AMPUTEE' website 
 I am Bjoern Eser, the creator of The Active Amputee. I am a father of three amazing children, a husband to an equally amazing wife, a thankful cancer survivor, an outdoor enthusiast, a passionate development practitioner and a very active above-the-knee amputee.
I have set up The Active Amputee as a resource page from amputees for amputees. It aims to inform, it aims to inspire and it aims to engage. Nothing more and nothing less. It‘s as simple as that.
At the moment The Active Amputee publishes a new post once a week. 

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BJOERN ESER & 'THE ACTIVE AMPUTEE'


LONELY PLANET ACCESSIBLE TRAVEL PHRASEBOOK website 
 All travellers will get more out of their trip by being able to speak a few words of the local language, but for people with a disability it’s often vital to be able to explain your particular needs. Since standard phrasebooks are unlikely to contain the language you need to talk about needs around disability we’ve gathered together some disability-specific words and phrases and translated them into as many different languages as we practically could. Although things are slowly changing for the better, there are still plenty of barriers to travel for people with a disability – language doesn’t have to be yet another. 

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LONELY PLANET ACCESSIBLE TRAVEL PHRASEBOOK







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