Steve A
Contributor
Hi, my wife and I are PADI ADOW and done around 45 dives each. We have been diving around 3 years. We are 46 and 48 yrs old and are both UK citizens.
We download the RSTC Medical statement and take it to our normal G.P. (doctor) who reads through the guidelines and signs it. (We do this as my wife is a smoker (gp carries out a peak flow test), I pulled my back about 3 years ago (no ongoing treatment) our age and just to cover ourselves really).
We take out annual holiday insurance with the post office which covers scuba diving to 30 metres.
This year I looked at DAN insurance but they said while the rstc was o.k. DAN wouldn't recognise it unless signed by a doctor trained in dive medicine.
I also found that the U.K..D.T.C. also require a 'dive doctor' to sign it a different form?
Shall I just continue with my normal protocol as my forms from our gp are in date and re-insure with the post office (there medical questionnaire is quite basic for the insurance.)
There seems a lot of conflicting advice about who requires what and just trying to cover myself really as in the unlikely event something goes wrong I don't want to be hit with 'well you should have done this'.
Some of the confusion may be we do all our diving in Egypt and different countries and organisations require different things.
We practice in a swimming pool with a Padi affiliated club in the u.k. before we go and they seem to have conflicting views with many older members not even having a medical check up?
We go away in a weeks time again diving and just want to cover all bases.
Any U.K. divers or any other nationalities wish to answer or add anything? Thanks Steve
We download the RSTC Medical statement and take it to our normal G.P. (doctor) who reads through the guidelines and signs it. (We do this as my wife is a smoker (gp carries out a peak flow test), I pulled my back about 3 years ago (no ongoing treatment) our age and just to cover ourselves really).
We take out annual holiday insurance with the post office which covers scuba diving to 30 metres.
This year I looked at DAN insurance but they said while the rstc was o.k. DAN wouldn't recognise it unless signed by a doctor trained in dive medicine.
I also found that the U.K..D.T.C. also require a 'dive doctor' to sign it a different form?
Shall I just continue with my normal protocol as my forms from our gp are in date and re-insure with the post office (there medical questionnaire is quite basic for the insurance.)
There seems a lot of conflicting advice about who requires what and just trying to cover myself really as in the unlikely event something goes wrong I don't want to be hit with 'well you should have done this'.
Some of the confusion may be we do all our diving in Egypt and different countries and organisations require different things.
We practice in a swimming pool with a Padi affiliated club in the u.k. before we go and they seem to have conflicting views with many older members not even having a medical check up?
We go away in a weeks time again diving and just want to cover all bases.
Any U.K. divers or any other nationalities wish to answer or add anything? Thanks Steve