Dive Guide Book

Choosing Scuba Diving Insurance

When getting travel insurance for your dive trip it is important that it fully covers you for all your diving, any time in the water and on boats, as well as in transit to and from the dive sites.

Most travel insurance has some sort of watersports or diving cover but this is quite often limited to what you can do, for example some insurers will only cover you for diving to a maximum depth of 30m. This can quite often not be deep enough and they can easily verify your diving from your dive computer, log book or the boat logs.

Not wanting to extend our holiday by a week so you can spend it in the chamber is quite important as it could have some serious side effects to your health. If you do find yourself in the unfortunate position of something going wrong good dive travel insurance is a must.

Dive insurance checklist

We suggest that you choose diving insurance that at least covers the following on top of the usual cover you would expect from travel insurance.

• Holiday cancellation
• Emergency medical costs including use of a decompression chamber
• Missed flights or delays
• Personal belongings including Scuba equipment
• Full cover for depths up to 50m
• 24 hour emergency helpline