Two wheelchair divers decided to check diving centers for accessibility
A ward of the Zhivoy Foundation, 30-year-old Viktor Putsik, and his friend launched a program to develop diving for the disabled, while Putsik himself could only blink a few years ago, and 21-year-old Nikita Vankov, after an accident, was confined to a wheelchair. As Putsik himself writes on the page of his project “Neptune’s Chariot”, in 2009 he broke a cervical vertebra after an unsuccessful dive into a pond. “Everything gave up - my arms and legs, but I somehow managed to swim out on my own.