Beginner Diving in Curacao??

[Blackcrusader]

@nidunn. Since you gave examples of divers going below their OW depth limits, I am curious as to what you think are the OW limits?

The certififed depth limit for PADI OW is 40m. Do not confuse a student limited to 18m prior to being certifified.

 

[Blackcrusader]

I don’t think any dive guide I dove with was a “scuba police.” I think if you want to go off on your own, rent a tank and go. The guides were all excellent!!! These divers were NEWER divers and any dive operation will be held fiscally and practically mresponsible for any trouble these newer divers get into by going beyond their limits so the dive guides have every right to ensure their safety. Cause they are the ones who will have to live with themselves and/or will be sued if these folk get themselves hurt or killed.

It is good for inexperienced divers to dive with people who are more experienced and stay shallower. That does not mean their diving is necessarily any safer. Diving in Fuvamulah in Maldives you can be diving with Tiger Sharks from near the surface to 60 foot 18m quite often. We had a Dutch lass diving with us who only had 15 dives.

Now there are misconceptions about depth limits for certifited divers. OW is certified to 40m 130 feet but only trained to 18m 60ft. Does that mean they should start deep diving? No. When my son certified we did 15 dives together in 5 days. By the 5th day he was comfortable at 25m 82ft depth. He is still OW but with hundreds of dives but no deeper than 35m. His DAN dive basic level insurance covers his OW to 40m the recreational depth limit. This is because DAN insures not to training limits but to recreational limits and you can actually get unlimited depth insurance.

Thread 'Dive Accident Insurance Limitations'

Mar 1, 2025

In a recent thread, a poster related a story about having to correct someone's misinformation about dive accident insurance. That misinformation has been repeated often in ScubaBoard threads. The correction is well buried in a long thread, so I thought I would create a dedicated thread that makes it clear and which can easily be linked in future threads. This one specifically refers to DAN accident insurance, but I think it would be good if other companies had their policies clarified here as well.

The misinformed person had stated that dive accident insurance only covers you if you are...

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