My Autistic Son's Journey With Scuba Diving

My son, Jacob, has always loved the water. As an infant, he played in the tub until the bath turned cold. In preschool, he built boats out of the blocks and commandeered the faux fishing boat at the local children's museum. Gordon Lightfoot's 1976 Grammy award-winning song "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" set off a 2-year-long obsession with shipwrecks culminating in a trip to the heralded White Fish Point.
Jacob's deep love of shipwrecks opened up a keen interest in the underwater worlds. W