You can join DAN as a recreational diving individual, family, free-divers or spear fisherman. DAN membership includes payment for the cost of hospitalisation, medical and hyperbaric treatment, and certain other costs associated with diving-related accidents. Only Plus and Mater members receive the Alert Diver subscription.

All applications are usually processed within 2-days. If you don't hear from us within 2-days after submitting an application please contact the DAN-SA office directly on +27 11 266 4900 or at [email protected] Please note that the DAN administrative office is closed on weekends and public holidays.

Dive Masters and Instructors working abroad within the DAN Southern Africa region now have access to the additional benefit of being able to extend their diving-only cover benefits, on specific application and only as a Master member. To activate this extension benefit, an application will need to be submitted to the DAN office for approval whenever the period exceeds 90 consecutive days, for each successive 90-day period.
 
It is necessary to contact the DAN office within 85 days when working abroad within the DAN Southern Africa region to be able to extend the membership benefits for any additional 90 day period.
 
Dive Masters and Instructors working abroad must apply for Master membership within their country of residence prior to departure.

It is important to note that the following is not covered as part of your DAN membership: search and recovery, and working on a cruise ship, sailing vessel or on a boat travelling from one country to another.

Dive Masters/Instructors working abroad now have access to the additional benefit of being able to extend their diving-only cover benefits up to a period of 365 days, on specific application and only as a Master member. To activate this extension benefit, an application will need to be submitted to the DAN office for approval whenever the period exceeds 90 consecutive days, for each successive 90-day period.
 
It is necessary to contact the DAN office within 85 days when working abroad to be able to extend the membership benefits for any additional period, with an overall limit of 365 days. If the period exceeds 365 days, the Dive Masters/Instructors will need to join the relevant international DAN office in the area that they are working in.
 
For Dive Masters/Instructors working outside the DAN Southern Africa territory, there will be an additional fee to extend their diving only membership benefits. Diving-only cover may be extended, based on contacting the office and requesting extended cover, for a fee of R350 per 90 day period, up to a maximum of a 360 days continuous period away.
 
Dive Masters/Instructors working abroad must apply for Master membership within their country of residence within the DAN Southern Africa region prior to departure.