Disabled Surfers Ride the Waves
15 September 2011
STEVE EMBER: Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC in VOA Special English.
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I’m Steve Ember. Today, we play new music from jazz musician Trombone Shorty…
And answer a question about casinos…
But first, we ride the waves with some special surfers.
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Special Surfers
STEVE EMBER: Dana Cummings was in his thirties before he first went surfing. That is older than most first timers. But, even more interesting is that Dana Cummings chose to learn the sport after losing a leg in a car accident. Now, nine years later, he helps other disabled people learn how to ride the waves. Katherine Cole has our story about the organization AmpSurf.
KATHERINE COLE: Dana Cummings is on the coast of Maine. He is working with twenty-seven year old Matthew Fish, who is partly blind. Cummings takes hold of Fish and leads him into the ocean. The surfboard floats next to them.
Fish lies on the surfboard. He tries to stand up on it. After a few attempts he is up and riding all the way back to land. He is excited.
MATTHEW FISH: “That was a thrill.”
DANA CUMMINGS: “You the man, nice job, buddy.”
MATTHEW FISH: “Again! Again!”
DANA CUMMINGS: “Let’s do it again.”
Dana Cummings served two tours of duty as a Marine in Iraq during the nineteen ninety Gulf War. He returned home without injury. But a car accident in two thousand two took his leg. Dana Cummings says the crash changed him more than just physically.
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