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(CBS4) CORAL GABLES It was a special day ‘down under’ for a group of disabled kids. The got to spend the afternoon learning to scuba dive at the Venetian Pool in Coral Gables.

“You get to breathe under water, it’s a weird feeling,” Michelle Cosentino told CBS4’s Shomari Stone. “I don’t know how to describe it, but I like it.”

The Diveheart Foundation, an organization dedicated to providing scuba diving instruction to individuals with a variety of disabilities, spent Sunday afternoon teaching six children from the Creative Children Therapy group to dive.

To get ready for the event nine South Florida scuba divers, most of them instructors or master scuba divers, spent the past week doing special Diveheart training as instructors and buddies for people with limited abilities so they could assist the Diveheart team during the day’s event.

"Water can be an equalizer for people with disabilities,” said Diveheart founder, and president, Jim Elliott, “We wanted them to experience diving and say, 'If I can scuba dive, then I can do anything.' We see individuals' lives change after learning to dive."

“I feel accomplished, I will do it again,” said Cosentino. “For sure, definitely.”

(CBS)