The pair are determined to break down stigmas.
Two disabled friends from Lancashire are on a mission to break down barriers in scuba diving and set a world record. Paraplegic Shaun Gash and Mohammed Salim Patel, who is blind are building up to a dive off the North West coast in the summer. BBC journalist Salim, 29, has a degenerative eye condition called retinitis pigmentosa. He was diagnosed at 10 years old and told he would go blind one day.
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