Dive Travel Insurance

Right, I'm busting this gaff and heading off for a week's liveaboard diving
in the Red Sea mid-February. As a result, I need some nice cheap travel
insurance that will cover me to dive to 30m (or greater, if available!).
Regaldive (who I've booked through) are quoting me £27 for the week - anyone
know of any better deals?

Cheers in advance!

On Thu, 22 Jan 2004 11:39:59 -0000, "Bardo" <me@privacy.net> wrote:

>Right, I'm busting this gaff and heading off for a week's liveaboard diving
>in the Red Sea mid-February. As a result, I need some nice cheap travel
>insurance that will cover me to dive to 30m (or greater, if available!).
>Regaldive (who I've booked through) are quoting me £27 for the week - anyone
>know of any better deals?

Sounds like a good deal, that. What does it cover, exactly?
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"ferret" <ferret@cruelmail.com> wrote in message
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> On Thu, 22 Jan 2004 11:39:59 -0000, "Bardo" <me@privacy.net> wrote:
>
> >Right, I'm busting this gaff and heading off for a week's liveaboard
diving
> >in the Red Sea mid-February. As a result, I need some nice cheap travel
> >insurance that will cover me to dive to 30m (or greater, if available!).
> >Regaldive (who I've booked through) are quoting me £27 for the week -
anyone
> >know of any better deals?
>
> Sounds like a good deal, that. What does it cover, exactly?

Couldn't tell you exact details ferret - all I know is that it's Regal's
standard travel insurance (1 week) with diving cover to 30m.

Got a damned good deal on the Liveaboard too - Golden One from Hurghada
leaving on the 13th. 'Red Sea Wrecks' itinery (ie. all the greats - Ghianis
D, Thistlegorm, Rosalie Moller, Carnatic etc) for £599. Sounded like a good
deal to me anyway!

If any other UKRS'ers are interested, there are still 4 places available,
apparently!

On Thu, 22 Jan 2004 12:47:02 -0000, "Bardo" <me@privacy.net> wrote:

>Couldn't tell you exact details ferret - all I know is that it's Regal's
>standard travel insurance (1 week) with diving cover to 30m.

It's all you'll need, then.

>Got a damned good deal on the Liveaboard too - Golden One from Hurghada
>leaving on the 13th. 'Red Sea Wrecks' itinery (ie. all the greats - Ghianis
>D, Thistlegorm, Rosalie Moller, Carnatic etc) for £599. Sounded like a good
>deal to me anyway!

Ooo get you, smarty-flippers.

>If any other UKRS'ers are interested, there are still 4 places available,
>apparently!

You're not *that* good a salesman, Herr Bardo...
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On Thu, 22 Jan 2004 12:47:02 -0000, "Bardo" <me@privacy.net> wrote:

>Couldn't tell you exact details ferret - all I know is that it's Regal's
>standard travel insurance (1 week) with diving cover to 30m.
>

Make sure you get a copy of the policy and read it. I saw one last
year that covered you to 30m but only when diving with an instructor

"Bardo" <me@privacy.net> wrote in message
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> Right, I'm busting this gaff and heading off for a week's liveaboard
diving
> in the Red Sea mid-February. As a result, I need some nice cheap travel
> insurance that will cover me to dive to 30m (or greater, if available!).
> Regaldive (who I've booked through) are quoting me £27 for the week -
anyone
> know of any better deals?
>
> Cheers in advance!
>
if your only diving to 30m the post office do a policy that covers you I
think it was about the same cost as is divemaster's

On Thu, 22 Jan 2004 11:39:59 -0000, "Bardo" <me@privacy.net> wrote:

>Right, I'm busting this gaff and heading off for a week's liveaboard diving
>in the Red Sea mid-February. As a result, I need some nice cheap travel
>insurance that will cover me to dive to 30m (or greater, if available!).
>Regaldive (who I've booked through) are quoting me £27 for the week - anyone
>know of any better deals?
>
>Cheers in advance!
>
Try http://www.divernet.com/westfield/sportdiver.htm

Was imperessed two years ago (paid out promptly on a small claim) and
will probably use them again this year.

Also offer group discounts (not relevant for you, I know).

David

In article <buocrn$jtqnk$1@ID-115313.news.uni-berlin.de>, me@privacy.net
(Bardo) wrote:

> know of any better deals?

Try DAN, get the resort to fax your details to them, i have done this and
been charged a "few" dollars for the trip duration.


DaveM

Bardo wrote:
> "Zak" wrote
>> OK.. so Im miserable, aged and crabby.... but even my memory aint
>> that bad.
>>
>> - Thistlegorm maxes out at 36m (by the prop)
>
> Come to think of it, I don't think I've ever got 36m out of the
> Thistlegorm - 31m was about as deep as I got and even then I was
> practically digging the prop out of the sand!

I just looked and I got 31m. I have a picture of the prop
that implies I was pretty near on the sand when I took it.

Try and do the 'tile wreck'. The one that used to be refered
to as the Cristola K until somebody noticed it was the wrong
size with the wrong cargo. The next one east from the Carnatic
at Sha'ab Abu Nuhas.

Fantastic, easy penetration down the central companion way
past a room full of generators down to an intact engine room.
It is 20 to 30m inside from open water but well worth it.
You won't see brass work like that in UK waters. The top of
the companion way is normally marked by a huge ball of
glass fish.

nigelH

Dave Morgan wrote:

> In article <buocrn$jtqnk$1@ID-115313.news.uni-berlin.de>, me@privacy.net
> (Bardo) wrote:
>
>> know of any better deals?
>
> Try DAN, get the resort to fax your details to them, i have done this and
> been charged a "few" dollars for the trip duration.
>
>
> DaveM

Do a google of UKRS and DAN, then think about if that's the insurance you
really want. As a note did anyone ever find an archive of the original web
page?

Danny

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