When Sue received her wheelchair, she noticed that people on the street could hardly look at her yet she felt emancipated. This social phobia or distress of the chair inspired her to and start doing fun things with it that involved art and otherwise. Later inspiration struck again and she decided to combine scuba-diving with her wheelchair to take it to a whole new level. So back to the lab she went...
TED Talk: More on Sue Austin's Deep sea diving wheelchair - Extended footage and she explains what inspired her to make this happen.
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