"It started out as a really good day," Casey Ellin said, until he dove into the ocean at Jones Beach in 2013. The jump left Ellin a quadriplegic, paralyzed from the neck down. Now he mentors those with spinal cord injuries.  Credit: Newsday/Alejandra Villa Loarca

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