Choosing the best dive insurance may not be the first thing on your mind when you imagine an exotic diving holiday, getting scuba certified or repeat-diving your local area… but diving insurance is actually pretty damn important!
Look; recreational scuba diving is pretty safe – but here’s your first piece of diving-advice: expect the unexpected!
A lot of random stuff happens underwater. Just look at those slides to the right. I was NOT expecting to meet that nameless wolf whilst diving the Red Sea (although I’m glad that I did). Point is, anything can happen down there!
Most of the time what happens on your dives is both awe inspiring and epic – but sometimes things can go wrong. And finding out after a dive-related injury that it’s not covered by your travel insurance – is too late to find out!
Getting sorted for scuba diving related injuries can cost hundreds of thousands of bucks i.e. emergency evacuation and post dive-injury therapy. So get your scuba-ass financially-scuba covered!!
Luckily it’s actually pretty damn cheap to do so – far less expensive than an actual diving holiday that’s for sure!
And in today’s savvy world, there’s a few providers of scuba diving insurance you can use online.
In my opinion, the best dive insurance providers in terms of flexibility, affordability and all-round coverage is DiveAssure. I love these guys and always use them! They have the highest payouts, are the most flexible and cover the widest range of dive related categories.
There’s also World Nomads: a popular travel insurance provider who also offer diving insurance and DAN (Divers Alert Network), the oldest dive insurance provider out there.
Between all three of these dive insurance providers, there’s a few differences regarding the specifics of the coverage they provide.
So now – to kick things off, let’s talk about DiveAssure, who are in my opinion offer the best dive insurance for both diving beginners and professionals alike – for a number of reasons. Gather round folks (strings banjo):