• Accessible by Public Transportation: No
  
  
• Transportation Provided by the Program: No

Open Waters is designed to:

• Provide information, technical assistance, and peer support on accessible scuba diving.
• Assist people at all levels of scuba diving: divers, non-divers, certifying agencies, instructors, equipment manufacturers, retailers, and dive tour operators.
• Improve the awareness, knowledge and developmental skills that people with disabilities need to participate in scuba diving.
• Identify sources of adaptive scuba diving equipment.
• Help consumers with disabilities understand the benefits of scuba diving as a means to improve overall physical health and well-being as well as explore an alternative environment.
• Work with the scuba industry to improve certification standards to mainstream people with disabilities into the scuba community.
• Educate the scuba community on how to teach people with disabilities to scuba dive through workshops.