The Dive Centre Partner programme recognises those within the diving industry who commit to promoting diving safety by achieving high emergency preparedness for the direct benefit of divers travelling within the DAN Southern Africa region. DAN offers dive resorts, dive centres and dive charter services the opportunity to cover their dive clients and staff when they join as a Dive Centre Partner. This dive cover package will fit your local and international clients' needs. The cover package provides dive medical cover up to R300,000. 

To become a Dive Centre Partner, your dive operation must demonstrate staff emergency preparedness and meet planning, equipment and procedures requirements. The online application will guide you in making sure your operation meets these requirements. Applicants must meet and maintain a high degree of preparedness to be eligible for participation.

• Staff Emergency Preparedness: The applicant has an Emergency Assistance Plan (EAP) and a Diving Injury and Lost Diver Prevention Plan in place, and all staff have signed an agreement that they are familiar with both.
• Diver Emergency Preparedness: Implement safe diving practices and advise divers to perform safety stops during their briefing. Inform divers of the lost diver procedures and diver recall procedures.
• Proper Emergency Safety Equipment: Appropriate emergency medical oxygen units and first aid kits are available on dive boats for emergency medical assistance.
• Recompression & Medical Facilities: Must be available in the country in which dive activities are conducted.
• Dive Client Travel & Health Insurance: Dive clients need to have travel or healt insurance to assist with evacuations cost. The Dive Centre Partner programme covers diving injury medical costs.

Membership benefits are restricted to diving-related emergencies and exclude evacuation. Membership benefits for medical expenses and assistance services to a total limit of R300 000 is available for divers who suffer a diving emergency, involving one of the following:

• A diving-related injury.
• A diving-related illness, specifically decompression sickness (DCS) and/or an arterialgas embolism.
• Any diving-related injury or illness not necessarily caused by pressure or pressurechanges, including, but not limited to, traumatic injuries.
• Cover is not applicable for divers over 74 years of age.
• Cover is not applicable for divers younger than 10 years of age.
• Divers must be either a certified scuba diver or a diving student on a recognised, entry-level certification course accompanied by a certified scuba instructor.
• A depth limit of 40 m applies (18 m for entry-level students).

DAN’s new Safety Tips for Dive Operators guide identifies some of the risks involved with running a dive operation and what can be done to mitigate them. It outlines minimum safety standards for various aspects of dive operations and provides a foundation for refining safety protocols by offering dive safety officers and other dive pros a tested approach for assessing safety and modifying practices to prevent incidents and limit liability.