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Diving Medical for Cairns?

mslady · 2010-10-06 06:26:40

I'm planning a couple of months travel at the end of this year to finish off my WHV, and was planning on doing a diving course in Cairns Today I read that there's a compulsory medical for courses in Oz, which is fine - my problem is I'm asthmatic and its on their list of high risk illnesses. My question is - does being…

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06-10-2010 7:26am

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mslady

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I'm planning a couple of months travel at the end of this year to finish off my WHV, and was planning on doing a diving course in Cairns

Today I read that there's a compulsory medical for courses in Oz, which is fine - my problem is I'm asthmatic and its on their list of high risk illnesses. My question is - does being asthmatic automatically exclude me from diving in Australia? Or is it assessed on a case by case basis?

(fingers crossed its the latter....its only mild asthma and i really want to dive!)

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#2 06-10-2010 7:30am
Zambia

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Ask over in the Diving Forum. Someone over there should know.

Or ring and ask these guys www.diveline.com.au

I think you should be fine.

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#3 06-10-2010 11:41pm
mslady

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will do, thanks for pointing me in the right direction - much appreciated!

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