Travel Insurance to include scuba diving

[chim_knee]

Hi,

Does anyone have any recommendations for companies to get travel insurance from that will include cover whilst scuba diving (to 30 meters).

I'll be after Single Trip, 14 days, couple cover.

Thanks,
Phil.

[safetystop]

www.divernet.com/westfield/

I use them but have never had to claim so I can't say if they are any good.

[vixpy1]

Diddyman will know this

[bouffy]

Norwich Union do it:

0800 121 007
Mon - Fri 8am-10pm
Sat 8am-6pm
Sun 10am-4pm

[Raify]

I've just had snowboard insurance from Snowcard and noticed that they also do scuba diving.

They're about the only people who give proper cover for off-piste, so I'd imagine that their scuba cover is good too.

[Hilts]

I've used these guys in the past for aerial stuff but I know they specialize in scuba diving as well.

www.snowcard.co.uk

[Raify]

Hilts said:

I've used these guys in the past for aerial stuff but I know they specialize in scuba diving as well. www.snowcard.co.uk

SNAP!

[Incorrigible]

I'm sure I replied to this earlier, anyhoo

I use Columbus, they were very good when I had to make a claim, snow stuff though, but I think all their activity stuff is pretty good

[andy4200]

Mentioned it on another thread but.... Select Insurance. I use them for Paragliding and they cover a large amount of adventure/extreme sports.

[diddyman]

vixpy1 said:

Diddyman will know this

Yes, indeed!

For starters, 30m is useless. Let's say you saw somthig at 32m, dipped down to see it and came back up. 2 dievs later you got your leg eaten off by a killer stickleback, or whatever. Insurance company will say "I'm so sorry, not only were you wearing a pair of blue fins (and our policy clearly states you can't in Section 43, Sub Section 27c, Paragraph 34.04d) BUT you also went to 32m two dives prior to your accident. I am afraid your insurance is void."

Take out a normal travel policy that covers for cancellation, curtailment and all the other stuff, and also take out an annual policy with DAN (Diver's Alert Network). www.daneurope.org is the site, if I am not mistaken, can be done on line and costs about 80 of those ghastly things they use on the continent. DAN will cover for medivac for both diving and no diving related stuff, chamber costs etc etc.

Hope this assists...

Cheers
Jim

[chim_knee]

Thanks all for the responses!

Good point Jim about the 30m limit, I've certianly drop the extra couple of meters before now and, as they say, insurance companies don't get rich by paying out claims willy-nilly!

I'll check out DAN.

Cheers again guys, much appreicated.
Phil.

[diddyman]

chim_knee said:

Thanks all for the responses! Good point Jim about the 30m limit, I've certianly drop the extra couple of meters before now and, as they say, insurance companies don't get rich by paying out claims willy-nilly! I'll check out DAN. Cheers again guys, much appreicated. Phil.

Where you off to Phil?

[chim_knee]

diddyman said:

Where you off to Phil?

Sorry missed this one, Pemba - off Zanzibar.

[bruciebabe]

diddyman said:

vixpy1 said: Diddyman will know this Yes, indeed! For starters, 30m is useless. Let's say you saw somthig at 32m, dipped down to see it and came back up. 2 dievs later you got your leg eaten off by a killer stickleback, or whatever. Insurance company will say "I'm so sorry, not only were you wearing a pair of blue fins (and our policy clearly states you can't in Section 43, Sub Section 27c, Paragraph 34.04d) BUT you also went to 32m two dives prior to your accident. I am afraid your insurance is void." Take out a normal travel policy that covers for cancellation, curtailment and all the other stuff, and also take out an annual policy with DAN (Diver's Alert Network). www.daneurope.org is the site, if I am not mistaken, can be done on line and costs about 80 of those ghastly things they use on the continent. DAN will cover for medivac for both diving and no diving related stuff, chamber costs etc etc. Hope this assists... Cheers Jim

I would seriously recommend joining DAN to every diver. When the brown stuff hits the fan they do not ask silly questions, they just do all the right things and fast. They have the vast knowledge and experience of diving emergencies that nobody else has. No other form of insurance can possibly give you anywhere near the same protection. Just do it.

[mel]

Agreed, DAN are the only outfit I would use. They are professional (well as professional as recreational diving gets ) and have good lines of communication open to the real proffesionals when things get horribly mucky. They are certainly the best of a bad bunch and as good as it gets in that light weight shandy drinking diving world of holiday makers looking at pretty things once a year

[mel]

bruciebabe said:

They have the vast knowledge and experience of diving emergencies that nobody else has.

Apart from the people they have to ask for help from that is but they do have a designated Liason Officer assigned to them for exactly that reason.

[chim_knee]

mel said:

....as good as it gets in that light weight shandy drinking diving world of holiday makers looking at pretty things once a year

Err... half a shandy, thank you!

[diddyman]

chim_knee said:

mel said: ....as good as it gets in that light weight shandy drinking diving world of holiday makers looking at pretty things once a year Err... half a shandy, thank you!

I thought it was whisky? Now I'll have to change your order!

[chim_knee]

diddyman said:

chim_knee said: mel said: ....as good as it gets in that light weight shandy drinking diving world of holiday makers looking at pretty things once a year Err... half a shandy, thank you! I thought it was whisky? Now I'll have to change your order!

call it a chaser...

[diddyman]

chim_knee said:

call it a chaser...

Would Sir like a plastic dolphin swizzle stick and pink paper parasol with his whisky?