Snorkelling Travel Insurance

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Snorkelling travel insurance:

Snorkelling is an activity that involves swimming through water using a diving mask, a snorkel and swim fins, the primary appeal of which is to explore underwater life and attractions.

Popular Areas:

Snorkelling tends to be most popular in tropical locations, where there is likely to be a lot of interesting underwater life to see and experience.

It is also a popular alternative to scuba diving.

Some of the most popular areas to do the sport are:

• Mexico - Weather in Mexico
• British Virgin Islands - Weather in British Virgin Islands
• Honduras - Weather in Honduras
• Cayman Islands - Weather in Cayman Islands
• Dominica - Weather in Dominica
• Bermuda - Weather in Bermuda
• Belize - Weather in Belize
• Fiji - Weather in Fiji
• California - Weather in California
• Maui - Weather in Maui
• Hawaii - Weather in Hawaii

Common injuries:

Snorkelling does come with inherent risks and it is possible to get injured whilst doing the sport.

For this reason it is important to purchase travel insurance if you want to go snorkelling whilst on holiday.

Some of the common injuries include:

• Drowning
• Suffocation
• Sunburn
• Hypothermia
• Stings from jellyfish
• Bites from other marine animals
• Barotrauma
• Cuts from contact with coral or rocks

To avoid sustaining any serious injury whilst snorkelling, it is important that you always go in the water in a group, stay close to the shore and away from rocks and do not touch the marine life.

Useful Websites: BSAC.com - Snorkeling Wikipedia - Tropical Snorkeling - Bermuda Attractions - Simply Snorkel

To get a quote by telephone or email, please call us on 0844 848 1500 or chris@jsinsurance.co.uk