Health and fitness are basic requirements for recreational diving. Chronic health conditions, certain medications and/or recent surgery may limit your ability to dive and require you to provide a medical certificate before diving.
The Society for Diving and Hyperbaric Medicine e. V. is a German specialist society for diving medicine. It creates guidelines for diving medical treatments and for the training of specialist personnel. You can access the GTÜM's official list of doctors using the LINK attached. Use the zip code field to find a doctor in your area and have your fitness to dive confirmed before the course begins.
Diving instructors, divemasters and diving school employees are not doctors and should not be asked for medical advice. An OK for diving from a medical perspective can only be given by a doctor.
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The fitness examination is a purely private service and is generally not covered by statutory health insurance companies. Experience has shown that the costs vary from doctor to doctor. A comparison is worth it.
Diving is a beautiful sport and, when done correctly, it is statistically one of the safest sports. Nevertheless, new diving accidents are registered worldwide every year. Costs that arise in connection with these accidents regularly reach the five-figure range. In order to be comprehensively secured in an emergency and to have the right partners at your side, reliable diving accident insurance is part of every diver's basic equipment.
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