08/16/2025
Happy 2nd Chance at Life Birthday to our Instructor David Jr, aka SCUBA Jr. 🎉
The inspiration behind SCUBA Quest Orlando/The SCUBA Gym
2007 was a life changing experience as a parent for me. One week we had a happy, healthy son, the next week we found out he had a brain tumor with a high probability of not making it through the surgery. After the surgery, it left him paralyzed from the neck down. He regained some use of his right side quickly but he is still paralyzed on the left side even today. I spent 2 months in the hospital with him, night and day, and 3 years of PT, OT, and several other therapies including scuba diving therapy and, of course, lots of prayers. Today he walks, runs and does anything he puts his mind to! It was during this time that I realized how Scuba Diving and HBOT is extremely beneficial to people with brain injuries. It is one of the reasons David Jr....AKA “Scuba Jr.” has recovered so well. I started The Scuba Gym to bring Scuba Diving to people with Special Needs, and what a blessing it has been.
~ David J Lawrence Sr.