IMPORTANT! Do you dive with a DAN Tag attached?

[DandyDon]

I guess the question is WHY is it not part of membership?

$20 seems like they are using this is a profit making excerise, rather than service to their membership.

I can't speak for DAN America, but I guess it's considered a seperate $20 option here in north America, while other DANs in Asia etc may include a tag as part of a different program. Different laws, different insurance, different medical protocols, etc - maybe even a different DAN tag, as someone said that they write on theirs over there, whereas ours arrive with our names sealed inside and the info in our DAN computer records.

Anyway, it is a $20 option in DAN America. I guess you'd have to ask them for a complete answer.

If you get yours from DAN Asia, it may be included, don't know. You could log in for Asia on the link in post 1, and read there. (I did try that, but it reads IP, so I may not get the right ifno?)

 

[dgreenh]

No DAN tag. I am a member of DAN because I really appreciate the work that they do and the help they offer, but I use DiveAssure for my insurance. I use a stainless dog tag with my info, but I wear it around my neck, not clipped to my BCD.

 

[nereas]

I have 300 dives on mine, my BC doesn't go in the water without it, and I don't dive any other BC. It goes in when I go in so if I am found or rescued needing help, they have the info they need immediately - especially the financial guarantees.

Click here, then select your part of the world​

http://www.dantags.com/​

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If my home buddy got hurt on a trip with me (he doesn't dive otherwise), I know his family and how to reach them - but if he needed emergency help and I didn't know where his billfold was, I'd be challenged to get the info fast enough.

Yeah, I know there are other dive Ins Companies, but there is only one DAN - and nothing can compare. Insure elsewhere if you wish, but keep your $29/yr DAN membership.

Then, hope you never need it badly.

thank you

Since you did not explain too clearly or directly, I take it these are supposed to I/D your body if it is found somewhere?

If that is what you truly wonder about, then probably there was something missing from your instruction, and maybe you should not be diving at all?

 

[Packhorse]

Dont have one. Not gonna get one or join DAN fir that matter. Dont have any dive insurance at all. AFAIK no one I knoe does either.

No real bennifit for it in New Zealand.

 

[DandyDon]

No DAN tag. I am a member of DAN because I really appreciate the work that they do and the help they offer, but I use DiveAssure for my insurance. I use a stainless dog tag with my info, but I wear it around my neck, not clipped to my BCD.

Yeah, that really works as good as my approach. Glad you're still in Dan even with other insurance. And thanks for posting.

Since you did not explain too clearly or directly, I take it these are supposed to I/D your body if it is found somewhere?

Since you don't know about Dan tags, maybe you'd like to click the link and check it out?

 

[tonka97]

Since you don't know about Dan tags, maybe you'd like to click the link and check it out?

For some of us, this may be the best option. Eventually every one will need one!

http://pushindaisies.com/candypress/scripts/prodView.asp?idproduct=301

In addition to the recommended DAN tags of course!

 

[Hemlon]

For some of us, this may be the best option. Eventually every one will need one!

http://pushindaisies.com/candypress/scripts/prodView.asp?idproduct=301

In addition to the recommended DAN tags of course!

It's official....Now I've seen it all.

 

[jbd]

$20 seems like they are using this is a profit making excerise, rather than service to their membership.

This is exactly what it is. It raises money to help provide the services DAN offers.

Nothing wrong with that IMO, as long as the person buying the tag understands that. Personally, if I wanted to support DAN I would just send them some money. The few places I have been diving outside of the USA required a small fee, euphemistically called a donation, that was sent to the local chamber operation for funding. I don't mind paying those fees because it helps keep chambers available.

 

[jbd]

JBD, with all due respect, I think you're full of caca...

Nope not full, my eyes are blue so I'm at least a quart low

 

[jbd]

I think you have the right to dive any way you like, but I can't really accept your arguement that "I dive safe, and therefore it cannot happen to me".

Respectfully, I believe you are in denial of the possible risks, and I consider myself fortunate that you were not me instructor.

-Nomad

Not positive, but I presume that these comments are directed to me.

In response to "therefore it cannot happen to me". That my friend is the dead opposite of what is in my mind when I dive. The thought I keep in the back of my mind is that at any moment the fecal material is probably going to hit the spinning blades, therefore I must make every attempt to survive every second of the dive.

In response to I believe you are in denial of the possible risks..... I study the risks. I understand the risks. I am required to fully explain the risks of diving to every OW student I work with and I do so to the point many have had second thoughts about learning to dive. I firmly believe people should be fully informed of the risks before they learn to dive. I don't deny the risks. Rather I acknowledge the risks. I dive in such a manner as to reduce the risks to the lowest possible level I can and then I accept what that is. No insurance policy or I.D. tag can do that for you or me.