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Year in Review
In the process of pulling together the SUDS year-end review, we were sent the following which we believe sums up everything the SUDS program represents. I’m probably different than 99% of divers on the...
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Making a Difference
For many of us 9 /11 was a call to serve, you couldn’t sit back and let this happen without fighting back, everyone wanted to DO SOMETHING. Many were called to serve in our armed forces to defend this...
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July 4th
It is July 4th, the time for picnics and fireworks. Let’s not forget the reason for celebration; it was the courage and strength of many men and women who had the willingness to confront the danger,...
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The hero among us
For the past week or so all eyes are on Sochi, Russia. These men and women didn’t get to be Olympic athletes on their own. They had the support of family, friends and their communities to make the...
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Trip Updates
Trip Updates: In early September 2013, Ocean Encounters and Sunscape Resorts in Curacao, Netherlands Antilles were gracious enough to host SUDS again this year. This was our third time to the island...
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SUDS Fundraising Updates
The support of SUDS throughout the year has been outstanding. The backing comes in many forms; private donations, volunteer instructors, manufacture equipment donations, dive shop and the hand- on...
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SUDS Diving 2013 Mid-Year Review
Where we have been… 2013 has been a busy year for SUDS, and it’s not over ye!. We still have lots of work to do, but thought it was time for an update. The year started out with two back to back trips...
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Courage
Courage is the idea of trusting in our own strength. Is it a gift that we are born with or is it something we learn over a lifetime of experiences? Ernest Hemingway defines courage “as grace under...
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SUDS in Fort Lauderdale Spring 2013
Left to right: Steve, Matt, Chris, & Brett Late May & early June took us, and two different groups of SUDS divers, to Fort Lauderdale. We haven’t been to Fort Lauderdale in a while and it...
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Memorial Day Week- End 2013 South Florida
The SUDS divers had a great long week end diving with South Florida Diving Headquarters. There were four SUDS divers, one from NMC, San Diego and three from Walter Reed who had three days of wreck...
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Eric Cowin Revisited
If you haven’t read the Soldier Spotlight about Eric Cowin, let us tell you a little about him… Back in 2009, Eric injured US Army Infantry, was approached by SUDS to participate in scuba...
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A week diving with SUDS and our military heroes
This was perhaps the most extraordinary dive trip I’d had even been on. The azure water was the perfect temperature, the beautiful sea life abound, the tropical scenery was fantastic. However, all of...
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Soldier Spotlight – Shane Heath
For as long as Shane Heath could remember, diving had been on his must do list. But he life was turned around during his 3rd Army deployment in Iraq. He stumbled across of IED and lost his left arm...
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Soldier Spotlight Eric Cowin
SSG (Ret) Eric Cowin Phoenix, AZ US Army Infantry I arrived at BAMC in San Antonio, TX in June 2009. While doing rehab one of the therapists talked to me about trying SCUBA diving. I did a class that...
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