Diveheart

12/27/2025

Deep pool comparisons: Safety first!

When you compare the images of the Dubai deep pool ( which is the same design as the deep pools in Poland, Italy and Brussels ) you can quickly see that the depth in each of the pools really comes from the tube part of the pool design. But when you look at the diameter of that tube you suddenly realize that you can only put a limited number of divers, say 20 divers in that diameter at one time. You can’t put 20 divers at various depths because if there was an emergency at 100 feet and there were say 40 divers above you it would be a potential disaster. This is why the patented Diveheart deep pool design telescopes up and out giving divers a clear unobstructed overhead ascent path to the surface at each atmosphere. Every level in the Diveheart deep pool has a ten foot ledge all the way around the perimeter for dive teams to settle on to do research, rehabilitation, training, etc. The Diveheart pool also doesn’t have any overhead environments or hazards in which a diver could get entangled or stuck. Safety is paramount in the Diveheart deep pool which now has three patents on the design. if you’d like to Find out more about the functionality of the pool and how it will be used contact Diveheart at info@diveheart.org or call 630-964-1983

12/27/2025

Award winning underwater filmmaker joins the Sharing Air movie team as Underwater Director of Photography
https://scubadivingindustry.com/news/award-winning-underwater-cinematographer-frazier-nivens-joins-filmmaker-david-marsh-on-feature-project-sharing-air/
Frazier Nivens

Florida Keys / Los Angeles — Award-winning filmmaker David Marsh has announced that Frazier Nivens, acclaimed underwater cinematographer and Director of Cinematography, and Founder, President, and …

12/26/2025

🎉 Diveheart turns 25 in 2026—and we’re going to celebrate all year long!

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12/25/2025

My payday at Diveheart is when I get someone out of their wheelchair standing up in a pool for the first time or better yet, get them moving independently in open water like Robert in this video, filmed in Cozumel. Watch Robert as he uses what movement he has in concert with the current and the rhythm of his breath...it's beautiful....Thank you friends of Diveheart for helping Robert and others "Imagine the Possibilities" in their lives
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7Ueu6122DQ&list=PLPdaNOiQ17_yKfkq6VDk37QYqc2jlTHul&index=33

After 13 years in a wheelchair Robert was able to walk & run again. Watch and listen to his amazing story as he escapes gravity to discover freedom.*********...

12/25/2025

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to all! 🎄❤️

12/24/2025

I had no burning desire to learn how to scuba dive, but as a young journalism student at the College of DuPage in Glen Ellyn Illinois I thought that as a reporter I might have to know how to scuba dive in the event I ever had to do a story on a famous scuba diver like Jacques Cousteau, so I took a scuba class. After finishing the academic and pool work at COD I ventured to Key Largo Florida to complete the open water portion of the training. Once I found myself twenty feet underwater and twenty feet above the coral reef, I realized that I was flying, hovering weightless in the water column. Glancing up and down in midwater made me feel like a superhero or astronaut. It was for me. I immediately realized that scuba diving was in some way therapeutic. As I began teaching scuba diving to people with disabilities in 1997, I simultaneously reached out to the head of physical therapy at Midwestern University in Downers Grove explaining the physical and psychological benefits that I was seeing in my students. Over the next twenty-five years Diveheart and Midwestern would partner on several research projects including the first study in the world on autism and scuba therapy. In the early years we also gave birth to the first scuba therapy class which I conducted at the warm water therapy pool at Good Samaritan Hospital’s new Recreation Center in Downers Grove. The scuba therapy class was not about getting a student certified but rather give them an in water zero gravity experience. I taught students how to use their breath to control their body position in the water. I would even have them close their eyes while balancing in shallow water and listen to their breathing while they focus on their up and down movement in the water column. It was so relaxing for the students that many came back for multiple scuba therapy sessions. I believe that scuba diving provides benefits to one’s body, mind and spirit. Over the years this is realization has caught on in the scuba and medical community. In fact, four years ago Diveheart was approached by Mayo Clinic and now presents on scuba therapy every year at Mayo’s annual medical conference. Diveheart continues to grow, inspire and facilitate scuba therapy by presenting at grand rounds to physicians and researchers at Duke, Northwestern and other university medical centers around the world.

12/24/2025

12/24/2025

On this Christmas Eve, we’re reminded that hope, inclusion, and possibility are gifts we can share all year long! ❤️

12/23/2025

Light up lives this holiday season with a donation to Diveheart! 🎄Your support helps bring the freedom and healing of scuba therapy to children, adults, and veterans with disabilities. 🎁 https://loom.ly/MR7zjMs

12/22/2025

🎄 As Christmas approaches, give yourself permission to slow down. 🐌 Joy often lives in the quiet moments!

12/22/2025

Hi my friends, Jim here. I wanted to share a personal update with you.

I was terribly near-sighted as a kid and had to wear glasses since the third grade. After developing cataracts this year and having cataract surgery in April, I for the first time saw 20/20 without glasses. I felt 20 years younger immediately. I celebrated sight every day.

Then, on November 26, while in Key Largo planning to film a new movie, Sharing Air (https://sharingairmovie.com), with award-winning filmmakers Frazier Nivens and David Marsh, over lunch I looked up and everything changed. Suddenly, my left eye was foggy, with floaters and little dots floating across my vision. Nothing traumatic happened, but I tore my retina, which developed into a detached retina. (See photo—the green part is the tear, and the white dots are laser welds to save the sight. It didn’t work.) If not taken care of, you have a 100% chance of going blind in that eye.

Today, I go in for surgery to repair the eye. Unfortunately, I’ll be literally laid up for weeks, if not months. No driving, no movement, no nothing—except the occasional bathroom break.
Here is where you come in. As the primary “rainmaker,” aka fundraiser, for Diveheart, I will be out of the box at a bad time during the giving season for me to go down. So I’m calling all the Angels of Diveheart to help reflect light into dark places this season without me.

You can help people of all abilities imagine the possibilities in their lives by sharing these opportunities to give with others:
❤ https://www.diveheart.org/make-a-donation/
❤ Zelle & Venmo: info@diveheart.org (PayPal also accepted)
❤ Create a Facebook fundraiser of your own (reference the Diveheart page for directions)

Thank you for always being there for Diveheart. Together, we can do great things!

12/22/2025

Bringing young people into service to help others is one of Diveheart's greatest goals. Teaching them how to reflect light into dark places is part of our mission as a non-profit. Scuba diving is just a tool we use to help people of All Abilities "Imagine the Possibilities" in their lives. In that spirit, yesterday was magical at the Diveheart Outreach Center in Downers Grove as young volunteers from the National Charity League came together with Diveheart to bring smiles to the community. Thank you all for your service above self.