I am going on a 3 month trip to South East Asia in September,with the intention of mostly Scuba Diving–particularly Indonesia.The few quotes I can get (age) are expensive,and often have huge restrictions on diving depths,etc. Anyone got any ideas? Have travelled extensively but usually without insurance–must be getting responsible in my old age!!

Most "regular" insurance considers scuba diving an extreme sport. Couple that with your age and you will get some outrageous quotes.

First, if you currently have health insurance, determine how it works outside of the US. Some policies are better than others. Either way you need to know what your current policy covers.

Second, look into regular travel insurance. This is great for lost luggage, missed flights, hotel overbooking, and stuff like that.

Third, look into scuba diving insurance. I highly recommend DAN (Divers Alert Network). It is a secondary insurance meaning it kicks in after your primary health care is used. Since most health insurance won’t cover scuba diving, it kicks in quickly. DAN insurance costs like $25 per year to become a member, and then $75 per year for the premium coverage. The premium coverage will cover more than just scuba diving related things. For $100 total dollars you can argue the coverage. DAN is also recognized worldwide. I haven’t had to use my coverage, but I have called the help line a few times with questions.

http://www.diversalertnetwork.org/

Back to the original question, most underwriters have no clue about scuba diving and they will cover their bases with high quotes. DAN has researched diving and diving related medicine for a while. They also realize that scuba diving is relatively safe.

I’m just fresh starting in scuba diving close to finishing my open water dive. I’m absolutely addicted to it and want to do nothing else but scuba dive. I’m trying to find careers that allow you to travel the world. I’ve looked at a career in exploration but want to find out if there are careers with same perks.

NOT THE NAVY

At the "bottom end" being a Dive Master, Assistant Instructor or Instructor would pretty much allow you to move around the world working for various dive shops/centres ona casual basis, but the market is pretty much flooded.

More career minded options would be Marine Conservation, Marine Archaeology, Marine Biologist, infact if it has marine in the title its a pretty good bet.

If you get into hard hat diving, which is NOTHING like your OW course; then Oil and petrochemical industry are always in need of saturation divers, but its a dangerous and not a long lived career.

But do bare in mind that what may be fun as a hobby, can quickly become just another job (I know its hard to believe atm!) when you do it day in day out for weeks on end.

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Just playing around with the new HD underwater camera+case! Putting on scuba gear with one hand, while holding the camera in the other, makes it look like I’m being attacked! ;D

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