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Outdoors with Lawrence Gunther

Outdoor news, environmental issues, reviews of outdoor tech and tips on exploring the outdoors with a guide dog.

Outdoors with Lawrence Gunther

Outdoor news, environmental issues, reviews of outdoor tech and tips on exploring the outdoors with a guide dog.

Episode 43: SCUBA Diving Blind and Wrecks of the St. Lawrence

Season 1 Episode 45 | Posted on: January 23, 2022

Episode Description

On episode 43 of the AMI Audio podcast “Outdoors with Lawrence Gunther” we explore SCUBA for blind and low vision divers with Hubert Chretien, executive director of Freedom at Depth. Ms. Lilly shares the details of a number of notable shipwrecks that have occurred over the past 300 years on the St. Lawrence River. Lawrence and Hubert discuss tips and tech used by vision impaired SCUBA divers and their sighted dive partners, and Lawrence reflects on some of the professional blind SCUBA divers he’s met over the years. If you want to learn to SCUBA, sign up with Freedom at Depth now before dive season starts.

Episode Description

On episode 43 of the AMI Audio podcast “Outdoors with Lawrence Gunther” we explore SCUBA for blind and low vision divers with Hubert Chretien, executive director of Freedom at Depth. Ms. Lilly shares the details of a number of notable shipwrecks that have occurred over the past 300 years on the St. Lawrence River. Lawrence and Hubert discuss tips and tech used by vision impaired SCUBA divers and their sighted dive partners, and Lawrence reflects on some of the professional blind SCUBA divers he’s met over the years. If you want to learn to SCUBA, sign up with Freedom at Depth now before dive season starts.