Seven Tips for Preventing COVID-19 While Diving
Wash your hands, disinfect gear, heed local warnings. There are just a few of the precautions divers can take to ensure they do not contract COVID-19.
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Dive Accident Insurance Versus Travel Insurance: Do You Need Both?
As a diver, do you need both diver insurance and health insurance? To determine that answer, remember that very few travel insurance plans cover scuba diving incidents.
Inspect Your Oxygen Unit and First Aid Kit
Most divers appreciate that first aid and oxygen kits are essential equipment. However, not everyone considers that many of the contents are perishable and need to be replaced periodically. Regardless of the size or type of your oxygen or first aid kit, a regular inspection (at least annually) is imperative.
How to Clean Your Scuba Equipment
There are many benefits to using clean, well-cared-for scuba equipment. Properly maintained dive gear can last longer and is less likely to malfunction and cause a dive accident.
Gear Maintenance: Protect Your Investment and Prevent Dive Accidents
Most divers understand the value of preventative maintenance, yet many fail to have their dive gear serviced. Keep your gear in tip-top shape to avoid serious equipment malfunctions.
Fitness for Diving
When you keep up your physical fitness out of water, you ensure you can continue to dive. But what does fitness for diving truly mean?
Medical Emergencies Abroad
Do you know what to do if you have an emergency abroad? Do you know how to access emergency care? Does your insurance cover you with emergency transportation and treatment?
How to Create an Effective Emergency Action Plan (EAP)
A basic emergency action plan outlines the steps first responders should take in a diving or nondiving emergency. The plan should be clear enough that an untrained bystander could assist if needed.
Health Concerns for Divers Over 50
Getting older doesn’t have to mean give up on diving, but divers over 50 should be aware of common medical issues that may interfere with safe diving.
Dive Operations and COVID-19: Prepping for Return FAQs
The following Q&As have been compiled from questions sent in by divers, dive professionals and operators and are intended to help everyone get ready for a safe return to the water.
