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    Sharing Air by KP Rigney & JR Elliott
    Sharing Air by KP Rigney & JR Elliott
    Sharing Air by KP Rigney & JR Elliott
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    Sharing Air by KP Rigney & JR Elliott

    By KP Rigney

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    Sharing Air is an inspiring journey that will touch your heart and perhaps move you to learn more about the incredible world of inner-space beneath the sea. This zero gravity environment provides the backdrop for romance, intrigue and adventure.

    Join our crew as we embark. Witness transformational change in those who dare to love, those who face their fears, and those who have the courage to explore their humanity.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherKP Rigney
    Release dateDec 1, 2011
    ISBN9780984833009
    Sharing Air by KP Rigney & JR Elliott

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      Sharing Air by KP Rigney & JR Elliott - KP Rigney

      Sharing Air

      A Diveheart Story

      By KP Rigney and JR Elliott

      Copyright 2011 KP Rigney and JR Elliott

      Smashwords Edition

      Smashwords Edition, License Notes

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      Dedication

      To Bill from KPR

      Table of Contents

      Chapter 1 - Immersion

      Chapter 2 - Giant Strides

      Chapter 3 - Surfacing

      Chapter 4 - Safety Stop

      Chapter 5 - Pre-Dive Safety Check

      Chapter 6 - Navigation

      Chapter 7 - Signaling

      Chapter 8 - Hazardous Marine Life

      Chapter 9 - Emergency Assent

      Chapter 10 - Rapture of the Deep

      About Diveheart

      IMMERSION

      The placing of a body under water or other liquid

      CHAPTER ONE

      (On the boat – the day of the Event)

      I’m not quite sure where to begin. A friend told me a story and I don’t know if I believe it. I’ll tell you and you can decide for yourself.

      What is your idea of paradise? Is it a sunny climate, a sandy beach, clear blue water? How many times have you gone on vacation for ten days, a week, or even a long weekend and thought why not stay right here, why go back to my humdrum life, my nine to five job, my dreary existence? I cannot count the number of times that I have gone away and felt that I had visited paradise and would be crazy to return home.

      With those thoughts in mind, let me tell you this little story. Like I said, it’s not my story but it is someone’s. Someone’s idea of paradise and that someone will decide if staying in Paradise is the right thing to do.

      Picture a perfect day – clear blue sunny skies, warm tropical breezes, white sandy beaches. On the horizon a boat is sailing along on the turquoise waters of the Caribbean. Picture the people aboard that boat laughing and having a fun day. At first glance you do not see anything out of the ordinary about the group, but when you look deeper you realize each one is special. Let’s take a closer look.

      Someone is telling a joke, his eyes are not focused on anyone in particular, but looking a bit skyward. He is asking why blind people do not skydive. Before anyone can respond he cries, Because it scares the Seeing Eye Dogs. As he says that he enthusiastically scratches a dog behind the ears. Isn’t that right, Bubbles?

      Also on the boat we see a man with two claws for hands helping a very robust man who does not seem to be able to get his booties off. The man with the claws laughs and says, Why would anyone, sighted or blind, want to jump out of perfectly good plane? When I jumped it was because I had no other choice and we all know how that turned out. With this, he clicks his claws as if they were castanets.

      Skydiving, that’s the next thing that I want to do, states a very attractive African American woman. Her name is Lois and she is being helped into her wheel chair by her husband Ben, who says, Yeah, well let’s get through with this adventure first. He smiles at the pretty blonde who is securing the Scuba tanks to the side of the boat so that they do not slip or fall over. What about you, Clarissa, ever wanted to jump out of a perfectly good plane? The blonde who has been dodging his advances all week long says, My partner and I have 12 jumps under our belts. Let me know, Lois, and I’ll introduce you to a great instructor. Your partner, you mean in business? questions a very surprised Ben. Yes, in business, she winks at Lois and says, Monkey business!"

      It’s not that guy Ron, is it? The guy we left on the dock this morning? questions Ben. He feels that he needs to know, needs to know everything about Clarissa. He has been hot for her since the very first scuba lesson. He thinks back to that day 3 weeks ago when he and Lois met Clarissa and Jonathan. Jonathan is the head instructor and the founder of an organization that helps the Disabled, as well as the able-bodied, learn to scuba dive.

      Ben and Lois had read an article in a suburban newspaper about the Diveheart Foundation which was started back in 2001 by Jonathan Strong. Based on the belief that because of the forgiving qualities of water the disabled could find freedom in the act of floating. The belief that the lack of gravitational pull could set someone constrained to a wheel chair literally flying through the water with no limitations.

      Dan, the blind gentleman with the dog, says, I would have given anything to see Ron’s face when the boat pulled away from the dock without him. Serves him right, Jonathan, the tall, deeply tanned guy with the sparkling smile, says. Running his hand over his gleaming bald scalp he laughs and says, He should have known that I would tell him we were leaving later than actually planned – he was a total ass yesterday. And I, for one, am glad that he didn’t make this last day of diving. It’s a completely wonderful day without him. The sky is bluer, the sea is calmer, the fish are friendlier, and I’m happier.

      Now focus your attention on the robust guy having problems with his booties. His name is Frisco and he is a helicopter pilot who was injured in Afghanistan. When we see him from the right side he looks sculptured and whole, as we pan to the left we start to notice some disfiguration of his face, and since his wetsuit has been pulled down to his waist, we see scaring along his chest and left arm. We are not aware of his entire list of injuries because most of them are internal, or cognitive. He has been down-hearted for a long time – even suicidal. Ron’s not such a bad guy; we can all be ornery at times. After all, isn’t he the guy who brought along that UPV thing, that Underwater Propulsion Vehicle? You seem to be having a pretty great time with that baby, Barron.

      Jonathan pipes up with, Frankly, that’s the only reason I did bring him along on this trip. He wanted me to test it out and see if we could find a generous benefactor to purchase one for Diveheart.

      Yeah, that and the fact that we ran out of dive buddies and needed someone with his experience on this trip, injects Clarissa.

      While all this is going on a man and a woman are sitting on the front of the boat. They are crossed legged, facing each other and staring into each other’s eyes. She sticks her tongue out at him; he moves a strand of hair out of her eyes and behind her ear. They are in mid-conversation. He claims to have seen more sea life than she, and she is disputing this fact. "You did not see an eel, that was two days ago.

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