Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the past couple of years have seen many dive trips cancelled and many divers longing to get back in the water. With the easing of travel restrictions, divers are once again looking forward to packing their fins and regulators and heading off to reefs full of incredible marine life, but if you’ve had any health issues since you last dived, remember to check the diver medical questionnaire to avoid disappointment on arrival.
During the Covid-19 pandemic, diver medical questionnaires were changed to include a question to identify those who had been infected with the virus – this resulted in a ‘Yes’ on the form for many which in turn meant the need for a medical assessment prior to diving. With the ever-evolving knowledge of the disease, there is good news for divers – the Covid-19 question has recently been removed from the form so simply having had Covid-19 DOES NOT require a medical assessment. If, however, your illness left you with any lingering health issues, this would be picked up on the medical questionnaire, resulting in the need for a consultation with a physician to determine fitness to dive – just the same as with any other illness.
If you are fully recovered, asymptomatic, at full exercise capability and without abnormalities, and assuming no boxes with a ‘Yes’ on the medical questionnaire, you’re good to dive! It is generally recommended that divers who tested positive but were asymptomatic or experienced very mild symptoms, wait one month after returning to full fitness before considering getting back in the water. Divers who had a more severe form of the illness should wait longer.
The safety of our divers is our highest priority and it remains essential for anyone with health concerns or problems to be medically evaluated prior to diving.
Click here to view the medical questionnaire that is required to be completed by all divers.
Everything started with my Open Water Course at Koh Tao, Thailand. I’m hooked with the first breath I took underwater – this magical and peaceful world with all these different colors and creatures made me forget about everything else. It felt like an addiction.
This time made me realize that I don’t want to keep diving only as a hobby. I wanted to become a Diving Instructor and make diving my profession.
I was working as an entertainer in one of the resorts in South Male atoll. The first time I tried diving I absolutely fell in love with it, so every day off I would go diving.
I was lucky enough to meet people from Euro-Divers who helped me complete my instructor course and employment later on.
That trip changed everything. Since 2014, I visited more than 50 countries in three continents.
2019, 2020, 2021 – still in Maldives, enjoying what I love the most.
Im sonnigen Süden (Ägypten) lernte ich im Urlaub die unglaubliche Unterwasserwelt bei einem Schnuppertauchgang kennen und lieben.
Anfangs arbeitete ich im Tauchcenter im Büro, mir wurde jedoch schnell klar, dass ich die Gäste nicht nur über Wasser sondern auch unter Wasser begleiten wollte. Somit machte ich die Divemaster Ausbildung.
I studied Hotel management and ended up working for several years in different Hotels/Resorts around Italians seaside where I spend my days off diving and achieving the Dive Master rating.
I choose to stay in Oman because of its unspoiled dive site, beaches and many undiscovered dive places! We do not have mass tourism here and the country itself is spectacular besides being the safest place to live in.
Bored and burnt out of the stressful life in Holland, I quit my job as Manager Back Office & Finance and I went to Curacao for holiday. On this tropical island I took my first breaths under water with Instructor Marc, who is still my buddy in life.
Diving keeps me grounded, relaxed and connected with Mother Nature (myself). It supports me to let go, to put things into perspective and it helps me to stay focused and balanced in my position as a manager.
But diving was not at all my purpose of the journey, in fact I was not even a diver yet, I became a diver after I got passionate in freediving in Egypt in 2012 while freediving with dolphin in the wild, eager to become a snorkeling guide, I did my life guard licence and then my PADI open water!
I love freediving but scuba diving is an all other story for me, learning scuba diving make you discover part of yourself you didn’t know, you learn to control things that you would have never imagined possible, I regularly see many of my students discovering how calm they can be underwater when in life they tend to be hyperactive and then in the other hand I see calm or introverted persons becoming excited and move like a torpedo underwater 🙂 so diving might not be for everyone but it is definitely to discover!
I decided after my hospitality studies to enter this fascinating new world. I have started my career in Club Med as Guest Service and had the opportunity to travel some of the famous destinations for diving or snorkeling.
I am the perfect example of someone who was scared of diving, the only advice I could give is to believe in yourself.
But since I was young, I knew I wanted to travel the world, to go on adventures, have fun and meet people from everywhere. Unfortunately, those jobs didn’t give me the opportunity to do it so after 5 years I decided to move to Thailand.
Scuba Diving is a sport of passion.
During this time, I wanted to try something new, so I started scuba diving and I will never forget my first underwater experience. I felt nervous at first but at the same time a lot of excitement.
Some people might think that diving is a difficult sport, but there are many ways to enjoy safe diving for any age or gender.
