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Coming up next on Jonathan Bird's Blue World,
接下来请收看乔纳森·伯德的《蓝色世界》，
Jonathan meets a group of veterans learning to scuba dive as rehabilitation for their injuries.
乔纳森将与一群正在学习潜水的退伍军人会面，他们用潜水作为伤后康复的疗法。
Hi, I'm Jonathan Bird and welcome to my world!
嗨，我是乔纳森·伯德，欢迎来到我的世界！
Most people learn to scuba dive as a recreational activity, combining a love of the water with the desire to explore beneath the waves.
大多数人学习潜水作为一种娱乐活动，把对大海的热爱和在海浪下探索的愿望相结合。
But sometimes scuba diving can be therapeutic.
不过，有时潜水可以作为治疗方法。
Today I am meeting a remarkable group of people who learned to dive as a way to heal after serious injury.
今天，我要见一群了不起的人。他们通过学习潜水，来治疗严重受伤后的创伤。
These men and women are part of a Wounded Warrior program that helps injured members of the military learn to dive as therapy.
这些人归属于受伤战士慈善机构项目，该项目帮助受伤军人学会潜水，以此作为治疗方法。
I was in Afghanistan conducting operations out there and I stepped in a doorway to clear a room and there was a pressure plate inside the doorway.
当时我在阿富汗执行任务，我走到门口清理房间，门口有一个压力板。
I stepped on it with my left foot and it took my leg there.
我的左脚踩到了它，腿就废掉了。
I received a gunshot wound to my right leg in 2009 and it shattered about five inches of my femur.
2009年，我的右腿中了一枪，撕裂了大约5英寸股骨。
Tasha lost some of her fingers in a training accident.
塔莎在一次训练事故中失去了几根手指。
So I pulled my hands out and I was like "I told you I didn't want to go on this deployment!" and just started making all these jokes.
我把手伸出来，然后说“我告诉过你我不想继续执行这项部署行动！”然后开始讲笑话。
And everyone was like "Are you crazy? Your hands are mangled and you are still joking?" and I was like...I have to.
大家都说“你疯了吗？你的手受伤了，你还在开玩笑吗？”我就说，我必须这样做。
I was in a 4 wheeler accident and I broke my neck and I was paralyzed from the neck down.
我在一次汽车事故中摔断了脖子，脖子以下瘫痪。
The doctors told me that I would never walk again, but obviously they were wrong.
医生说，我再也不能走路了，但显然他们错了。
I had some good surgeons and some great support from my friends and family and here I am running with the best of them.
几位优秀的外科医生给我治疗，朋友和家人也给予我大力支持，才让我有了今天的自己。
I will say that scuba diving is the first time that I haven't felt the limitations of my injury since the accident.
我要说的是，事故发生后，潜水让我第一次感觉不到自己受伤带来的限制。
Stewart Snyder is the Course Director of the Handicap Scuba Association International.
斯图尔特·斯奈德是国际残疾人潜水协会的课程主任。
Stu and his team are the ones who taught these wounded warriors to dive.
斯图尔特和他的团队教这些受伤的战士潜水。
When the Wounded Warriors project came along, there's a watersports festival in New York City.
当“受伤战士”项目出台时，纽约市正在举行水上运动节。
We went up there for the first time with the Be-A-Diver pool, and we had 35 soldiers get in it and try scuba diving.
我们和潜水员泳池合作首次参加这个运动节，有35名士兵来泳池尝试潜水。
The funny part about it is, we couldn't get them out of the pool.
有趣的是，我们没法让他们离开泳池。
Each year, after they do their pool and classroom training,
每年，在他们进行泳池课堂训练后，
several wounded warriors get the chance to travel to the island of Bonaire to complete their training in the open ocean.
一些伤员有机会前往博内尔岛，在开阔的海域完成训练内容。
This year, six wounded warriors have come to Captain Don's Habitat to learn to scuba dive.
今年，六名伤员来到唐船长俱乐部的水域学习潜水。
One by one, the warriors enter the water
战士们一个接一个地下水，
and I'm right behind with my camera to document their adventure.
我拿着相机在后面记录他们的冒险经历。
Let's go.
出发了。
The warriors start with a basic reef dive to see some marine life.
战士们先进行基础的珊瑚礁潜水，看些海洋生物。
Next they visit a shipwreck, 80 feet below the surface.
然后参观一艘沉船，沉船距离海面有80英尺。
Divers of all ages and experience levels love to explore shipwrecks.
不同年龄、拥有不同潜水经验的潜水员都喜欢探索沉船。
In addition to being a magnet for marine life, wrecks are just plain fun to swim through!
沉船除了能吸引海洋生物外，畅游其间本身就富有乐趣！
Shipwreck or coral reef, these wounded warriors find some peace, relaxation and a little adventure as they dive in the beautiful, clear waters of Bonaire.
沉船或珊瑚礁，让这些伤员在博内尔岛美丽清澈的海水中潜水时，找到了些许平静和放松，还能来点探险奇遇。
You just kind of forget everything, forget your worries, just focus on what you are doing.
你会忘记所有事情，忘记烦恼，只专注于正在做的事情。
There's nothing like it, there's no gravity down there, just do what you want. It's beautiful.
没有什么比这更好的了，水中没有重力，可以做你想做的事。真的很漂亮。
You're free. You can go up, down, left, right, any direction you want to go and there's something cool there to look at.
你是自由的，可以上、下、左、右，向各个方向游，去你想去的地方，去看炫酷的东西。
Once I get in the water, I still do have pain but it's not nearly what it is while I'm here on land and moving around and everything.
下水后，我还会感到疼痛，但没有在陆地上四处走动时，那么严重。
So I love it and so I plan on moving forward with the whole thing too.
所以，我很喜欢潜水，也打算继续学下去。
I think it gives them back self-confidence, self-worth.
我觉得潜水会让他们找回自信和自我价值。
A lot of times I see them...they are a little hesitant to get in the water.
我经常看到他们在下水时有点犹豫。
Then they get in and then it opens a whole new world. It's easier for some of them to move because they are missing legs and arms...
等他们入水后，就打开了一个全新的世界。他们中的一些人没有了腿和手臂，所以在水中更容易移动。
When you are in the water, you aren't thinking about your injury, you are thinking about what is going on in that moment.
在水中时，你不会想到自己受的伤，而是专注于当下。
The experience just takes your mind off everything else.
潜水会让思绪摆脱其它事情的烦扰。
I'm looking into going further in the whole realm of scuba diving mainly because I live with pain on a constant basis. It's always there.
我在进一步系统地研究潜水，主要是因为我一直生活在痛苦中，疼痛一直都在。
And scuba diving is the one thing that makes it not hurt as much as it always does.
潜水让疼痛不再那么严重。
It absolutely has helped with my recovery.
它对我的康复有很大帮助。
You know, it gets me out doing things I wouldn't normally do and it's good physical therapy and helps me work on my coordination, and helps control my breathing.
它让我做一些平时不会做的事情，是一种很好的理疗法，帮助我协调身体、控制呼吸。
Under the water you use muscles you wouldn't normally use, you carry your equipment around so you get stronger and faster and more coordinated and it's just been amazing so far.
在水下，你会用到平时不用的肌肉，携带着设备游动，这样身体会变得更强壮、速度更快、动作更协调。真是太不可思议了。
I don't even feel like there's really a handicap there. It's non stressful.
我甚至没感觉到身体缺陷，没有压力感。
I go out there and jump in with my water leg and there's really no difference.
我去潜水，带着假腿入海，感觉不到身体上有什么区别。
Grouped by working with them myself, our eyes are always filled up with water. It is not the pool water, the ocean water. It is the tears.
亲身和他们在一起工作，感觉我们的双眼总是水汪汪的。那不是池水，不是海水，而是充盈着眼泪。
It is a real good feeling when you help somebody like that to conquer something. Do give me that kind of look.
帮助别人去征服困难时的感觉真是太好了，拜托别那么看着我。
Bonaire honors the Wounded Warriors with a motorcycle procession through Bonaire. Captain Don's even loans me a Harley Davidson to join the procession.
博内尔用摩托车列队驶过整个小岛的方式向伤员致敬。唐船长俱乐部甚至还借给我一辆哈雷戴维森参加游行。
We also attend a reception at the home of Lt. Governor Glenn Thode.
我们还参加了在格伦·索德副州长在家中举行的招待会。
I use the opportunity for some shameless promotion—hopefully turning the governor and his wife into Blue World fans!
我利用这个机会做了些宣传，希望能把州长和他的妻子都变成《蓝色世界》的粉丝！
So, you meet a lot of creature in the water.
你们在大海中见到了许多海洋生物。
I left that evening with a tremendous respect for these men and women who sacrificed so much for our country and never give up.
那天晚上，我离开了博内尔，心中向这些为国家做出巨大牺牲，永不言弃的战士们致敬。
And I gained a new respect for scuba diving, which is helping them heal and recover from the wounds.
我对潜水也增添了一份新的敬意，潜水有助于伤员们康复，帮助伤痛痊愈。
The opportunity to meet and dive with these amazing heroes will always make this trip to Bonaire very special.
有幸与这些神奇的英雄们见面和潜水，使这次博内尔之旅变得不同寻常。
