Underwater discovery outing
Every year, the Handiversité department organizes a day-long outing to discover an extracurricular activity. This year's program? Scuba diving with the Odyssée diving school in Sète. An immersion in well-being... A video produced by DSIN at the University of Montpellier.
Seven people took part in the adapted outing organized each year by the Handiversité department. On the morning of June 6, Emma, Anthony, Alice, Jérôme, Mai-Linh, Nicolas and Vinhson boarded a bus bound for Sète. Thanks to the Odyssée diving school club and its deputy president Emmanuel Serval, they were able to enjoy a diving baptism. This outing, organized " in a context and environment they're not used to, is an opportunity to show them that it's accessible to everyone ", says Frédéric Achard, head of the Handiversité department.
Suit, fins, regulator and tank, the seven students donned the full panoply of the diver. When you immerse yourself underwater, you feel good," says Emmanuel Serval. There's a totally different resizing of the body between aerial and underwater activities. And faced with the clear waters of the Mediterranean, everyone, whatever their disability, dared to take the plunge! " It's an opportunity to do something I've never done before, so I said to myself: well, go for it! Let's go! Let's go!" declares Alice, who, like her six classmates, obtained a pass in underwater biology after the underwater environment awareness training they received.