Going Solo? Check your insurance policy!

Alex Tattersall · Issue 61, Jul/Aug 2011 · pp. 39–42

Products mentioned: Nauticam housing, Canon 7D, SDI Solo Diver course, Dive Master Insurance

Readers may be somewhat disappointed to know that I shan’t be mentioning Nauticam in this article. No, instead this article contains a very serious message which only came to my notice recently and could have potentially disastrous consequences to many of my UW photographic peers. I felt it my duty to share this with you. As the hair on my head thins and the tyre around my middle thickens, so intensifies my lovely wife’s insistence on larger and larger life insurance policies. We now have a boisterous four year old and ensuring his financial security is, of course, paramount to me as priority has shifted towards the wellbeing of my young family. When I am testing equipment or feel the need for some ‘me time’, I will often dive alone. Shock, horror, call the BSAC police, surely solo diving is one of the Seven Deadly Sins, was it not written on the tablet of the Ten Commandments, ‘Thou sha…