Dive Alert Network's Travelers Medical Guide

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Dive Alert Network's Travelers Medical Guide - A guide to help recognize and manage travel-related illnesses and injuries

Dive Alert Network (DAN) offers this guide (may be viewed online or downloaded) "...created to help divers, boaters, and adventure travelers recognize and manage travel-related illnesses and injuries."

Section 1: Planning and Preparedness.
Section 2: Disorders caused by Travel.
Section 3: Illnesses Travelers Might Encounter.
Section 4: Traveling When Diagnosed with a Chronic Illness.
Section 5: Travel Related Injuries.
Section 6: Key First Aid Principles.
Section 7: Assembling a Travel...

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[Max Offshore]

DAN is imperative to have if diving in the Bahamas. For Chambers there are more will check the status. At the moment the Chambers for Recompression --Diving Bends--
BAHAMAS

Bahamas Hyperbaric Centre
44 Queen Street
PO Box SS-19064
Nassau
242 362-5765 (phone) / 242-356-7169 (fax)
Multiplace: Yes
Emergency: 242 362-4025

The Bahamas Hyperbaric Centre
The Lyford Cay Hospital
P.O. Box CB-10981
Nassau
242 362-4025 (phone)
tseretop@bahamas.net.bs
Director: C. Dean Tseretopoulos
Multiplace: Yes
Chamber #: 242 362-5765

 

[TooCold]

Welcome back, old thread.

DAN is imperative to have if diving in the Bahamas.

I assume from context you're referring to medical insurance. Is there some reason insurance through DAN is important for Bahamas diving in particular?

DAN is a valuable organisation, and membership is a good thing. But I've never seen the need to buy special dive medical insurance. I always had vacation/travel medical coverage as part of a standard and really common employment benefits package.

Now that I'm retired, the commonly available travel medical I buy on a trip by trip basis is all I need. When shopping around I have never encountered any scuba-related exclusions, except that the diving be recreational (i.e. not for pay) and "not exceed certification level" whatever that means.

 

[Max Offshore]

Sir, having lived in Asia for 17 years on the Scuba End and Commercial Diving end, I would say any dive insurance that takes care of the diver is key. For example, once in Thailand years back a couple went to deep with XYZ dive operator and became bent. They went for treatment and 1 had DAN insurance the other none. The cost was over 5k for him. Another time I was down in Indonesia. This time a man made several dives below 100 ft and then woke up with a sharp pain. He was from Norway and had SOS insurance. A hospital in Singapore took care of his Medical Evac from Indonesia to Singapore and treated him in a chamber there, He bill would have been over 29000 USD--maybe confidential. He worked for a oil company and was not on the job. Insurance and diving can save lives period. As far as International Travel Insurance--check with which country you are visiting to ensure all is well. AIG Travel Guard® Direct - Supreme--for Thailand. DAN if diving...