Welcome to 10-8 Scuba

“I find diving super therapeutic, because it slows me down. There’s not a lot of distractions, and it kind of distills you down, your emotional state, your thought process, your problem solving, it all slows down.” From Off Gassing: A Scuba Podcast: A Conversation with Don Mirra, Mar 18, 2025

The goal of 10-8 Scuba is to use the transformational experience of scuba diving to encourage healing for first responders (the client) with PTSD and other injuries. Funded through donations, we identify and work with a dive center that is local to the client to cover the cost of their basic scuba certification. We are…

10-8 Scuba Inc is a 501(c)(3) public charity whose mission is to help first responders who have been injured in the line of duty or have experienced and suffer from PTSD and other cumulative traumas, to be able to enhance their quality of life through scuba diving. While many are quick to recognize police, fire,…

10-8 is a radio code used by many first responders meaning “in service.” When said on the radio it means that police, fire, or EMS unit is ready to go to work. As the mission of 10-8 Scuba, we look to use scuba training and activities to assist our injured first responders in their recovery,…