Dive Medicals

Please complete medical questionnaire prior to your visit

• BITS Medical Patients Form (if you aren’t currently a patient at BITS Medical)
• Recreational Dive Medical Form
• Occupational Dive Medical Form

Recreational Dive Medical	AS4005.1	$100 incl. GST
Occupational Dive Medical	AS/NZS2299.1	$200 incl. GST

Scuba diving does involve some risk and some medical conditions can make the risk of death while diving much higher. As a result, the regulations, requirements and medical standards relating to diving in Australia are amongst the strictest in the world, in order to ensure that Australia continues to be one of the safest places to dive in the world.

Australian Government sources suggest that only 1 in 430,000 Queensland dives results in a fatality, compared to 1 per 120,000 dives in the rest of Australia, 1 death per 100,000 dives in the United States, and 6.5 deaths per 100,000 dives in Japan.

The Australian Dive Medical assesses the fitness and suitability of prospective scuba divers and ensures that the medical standards for diver fitness meet the standards of Australian Standards AS 4005.1 for recreational divers, and AS/NZS 2299.1 for occupational divers. It is a legal requirement for medical practitioners who perform diving examinations to adhere to these standards and to have had a level of training approved under the Standard.

Severe Risks

A severe risk condition implies that an individual will be at a substantially elevated risk of serious injury or death compared with the general population, and should not dive. The principle conditions in this category are:

• Asthma
• Recent heart surgery
• Serious lung or chest disease (particularly where surgery was involved)
• Epilepsy, fitting, convulsions and seizures, or taking medications to prevent them
• Diabetes
• Pneumothorax (collapsed lung) even after a surgical procedure designed to prevent recurrence
• Any neurological abnormality where there is a significant probability of unconsciousness
• Pregnancy

If you suffer/have suffered of one of the condition above you might be not fit to dive. You can consult the dive medical doctors to be preliminary assessed prior to the medical to prevent disappointment and unnecessary costs.

Booking an Appointment

Dive medicals are time consuming. They involve a medical questionnaire, physical examination, and ‘in the surgery’ tests: lung function test, hearing test, urine test, ECG (if required).

Sometimes the doctor needs additional test to assess you fitness to dive. These tests are not performed at Bits Medical Centre and will have additional fees. For instance: cardiac stress test, CT chest, chest X ray, histamine provocation test etc.

To save time we greatly appreciate you to print out the appropriate forms and complete them prior to your visit. If you are a new patient to the surgery, you also have to fill in a new patient form prior to your visit.