IMPORTANT! Do you dive with a DAN Tag attached?

[DandyDon]

Nope, not joking. My insurance is located between my ears and behind my eyeballs. I'd rather spend the money on training, learning and understanding diving, with the specific goal of never needing the services of DAN.

BTW, I'm not anti DAN. I just prefer to not need their services.

With all respect to you as an Instructor, and you may be a damned fine one - that is a poor message to hear from one.

 

[jbd]

(Why did you get that passport again?)

They made me do it so I could get back in this country after my up coming Blackbeards trip. I'm not much of a traveler.

BTW I understand the point of paying the bill prior to release when in a foreign country I would make the necessary arrangements.

 

[DivingPrincessE]

Hey, I am happy to see some yes votes - and hope many will change...

It is negatively buoyant and if it fell in by itself, it'd sink. To make it float would require air pockets, making it larger, and I think it'd tend to get in the way. Mine is very secure on my BC - not about to fall off.

Ah you see, I don't have my own BCD yet. I've learned (on this board actually) to rent BCDs for a while before I buy. I'll have the card soon, so I'll stick with that until I buy my first BCD (which will likely be within the next year). I just don't trust how secure it will be, if it something I am always attaching and detaching everytime I rent a new BCD.

 

[almitywife]

....i just prefer to not need their services.

i hope we all never do but for a yearly subscription... what if???

we travel, next moth off to Tassie then Solomans then Vanuatu.... what if some other diver endangers my life - at least i have DAN than will assist in helping out in any way they can

 

[almitywife]

Ah you see, I don't have my own BCD yet. I've learned (on this board actually) to rent BCDs for a while before I buy. I'll have the card soon, so I'll stick with that until I buy my first BCD (which will likely be within the next year). I just don't trust how secure it will be, if it something I am always attaching and detaching everytime I rent a new BCD.

you can use a cable tie - nothing gets those things off.. just remember to remove it

cheers

 

[DandyDon]

Ah you see, I don't have my own BCD yet. I've learned (on this board actually) to rent BCDs for a while before I buy. I'll have the card soon, so I'll stick with that until I buy my first BCD (which will likely be within the next year). I just don't trust how secure it will be, if it something I am always attaching and detaching everytime I rent a new BCD.

It comes with a nylon attachment that screws on securely, unscrews. I unscrewed mine for the first time in years to make the pic as I wanted to turn the tag around.

 

[jbd]

......that is a poor message to hear from one.

How is learning and understanding the risks and mechanisms of injury related to diving a poor message??? How is it a "poor message" to insist on learning to dive with skill and ability to prevent such injuries??? I don't advocate against people having insurance. That is their personal choice to make. It is also my personal choice to make.

I conduct my diving so as not to need the services of DAN, through training, practice and learning. Who knows, I may need chamber services some day---thats always a risk of diving. If I'm in a situation where I would think a call to DAN might be of help to me, I already know I need a chamber. If I can't make that assessment for myself then I am most likely going to be well beyond any help or assistance DAN could provide. For that I have life insurance.

 

[almitywife]

i suppse JBD is thinking it from only his point of view (nothing wrong with that)...... im thinking about other divers. those i find and can assist and those that can endanger me

 

[DandyDon]

All good and sound ideas except for one...

I conduct my diving so as not to need the services of DAN, through training, practice and learning.

Ever heard of unexpected hit? Even known a diver who had one, had to be medevaced back to the states and spent weeks in ICU?

My opinion is that if one will not carry DAN insurance, they should never go to sea.

i suppse JBD is thinking it from only his point of view

Yeah, but he is going out of country to dive and he is teaching students.

 

[Thalassamania]

No that Dan Orr is running it I will put one on. I really did not want to be associated with Peter Bennet in that way.