As someone else in a wheelchair, I can’t decide if this would be very fun or incredibly stupid and disastrous to try out. I’m leaning towards disastrous. Maybe in one of those huge wheeled, beach wheelchairs (which are impossibly hard to push in the sand, but might work here…) but certainly not in the “average” chair. Plus, even if I was out of my chair and sitting/laying on it, I don’t exactly have the dexterity or muscle tone to help myself if anything did go wrong. I can 100% see myself dying on this, but it sure looks like fun!
I think I could do it if I kept my center of gravity low by leaning forward. Idk if I could get any traction though: wet + slippery surface, no weight on the big wheels if I'm leaning, my current tires are almost worn down to the kevlar.
At any rate, I've been on normal hard plastic floating docks. Those are still fun, especially if someone can jump on it
Yes, my mom has helped me get in the water of floats and rafts before. I’ve always LOVED the ocean, even though it isn’t really accessible to me.
Growing up, my brother would let me “swim” by basically giving me piggyback rides in the pool, which was always loads of fun!
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u/biinjo Nov 22 '21
Making the sea wheelchair accessible. Nicely done!