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Deptherapy will shortly become known as the name of the charity which Fraser Bathgate from Edinburgh is co-founding with writer and journalist Martin Hannan to raise money to help disabled war veterans from the Allied forces with their rehabilitation through scuba diving.

Put simply, Deptherapy is a revolutionary approach to rehabilitation devised by Bathgate who is the pioneer of an unusual but highly effective form of treatment – scuba diving.

At present, only American service personnel have been able to take advantage of Bathgate's Deptherapy programme. The intention of the new charity is to make the same programmes available to British veterans and eventually for people with disabilities and injuries everywhere.

Deptherapy, the book and film, is also going to be the extraordinary story of how a group of disabled American war veterans found hope and healing thanks to Bathgate.

The book is also the life story of Fraser Bathgate, who has been in a wheelchair since a climbing accident at the age of 23. Deptherapy will tell how Fraser plumbed the depths of nearsuicidal despair but found a new life after taking up scuba diving by chance.