For surfers
The best waves
break far from clinics.
Surf travel takes you to coastlines where the nearest real hospital is a flight away. GME ACTION members get access to coordinated medical transportation and travel-related benefits.
Medical transportation membership. Not health insurance.
Serious member benefits. Surprisingly affordable.
Preparation
You plan the trip properly.
- Boards and travel bag.
- Fins and leashes.
- Ding repair kit.
- Swell charts.
- Flights.
- The boat or the truck.
- Two weeks off.
- The whole strike mission.
Now plan for getting out.
Surfers plan how to reach a wave in extraordinary detail. Almost nobody plans how to leave in a hurry.
See Membership OptionsThe scenario
A reef break, two hours from a paved road.
Overhead and hollow.A late drop.Fin to the head.
Reef cuts, board strikes, shallow-water impacts and spinal loading are common surf injuries — and they happen where medical infrastructure is thinnest.
- Getting off the reef and out of the water
- Reaching an appropriate medical facility
- Air transport from a remote coast
- Being hospitalized in another country
- Getting home
- Your boards and your trip
- The people you traveled with
GME ACTION is designed to provide eligible members with medical transportation and related assistance benefits when situations like this occur, subject to the Member Agreement.
Remote is the point.
It's also the problem.
Member benefits
What membership gives surfers
A 24/7 line and coordination of eligible transportation, including getting you home from a foreign coast.
Emergency air transportation
For eligible situations requiring medically appropriate air transportation.
Helicopter transportation
Applicable emergency helicopter transportation benefits, subject to program terms and circumstances.
Ground ambulance transportation
Eligible ground medical transportation when applicable.
Medical repatriation
Assistance with eligible medical transportation when hospitalized away from home and transportation is medically appropriate.
Return transportation
Applicable assistance with getting the member back home following an eligible medical situation.
Visitor / escort transportation
Applicable travel-related benefits for an eligible visitor or escort where program conditions are satisfied.
Vehicle return
Applicable assistance related to returning a member's vehicle following an eligible event.
Pet return
Applicable assistance related to a member's pet when program requirements are met.
Benefits are subject to eligibility, terms, conditions, limitations, geographic requirements, and the GME ACTION Member Agreement. Eligible event and competition participation is subject to membership terms; professional, paid, sponsored or specially sanctioned participation may require additional disclosure or approval.
Built for surfing
The way surf trips really go
Reef, beach breaks, boat trips and travel are all part of what the program was designed around.
Participation in an activity is not automatically disqualifying solely because the activity involves inherent risk.
Eligibility and benefits remain subject to the GME ACTION Member Agreement and any applicable participation requirements. Eligible event and competition participation is subject to membership terms, and professional, paid, sponsored or specially sanctioned participation may require additional approval, conditions or disclosure — contact us before joining so we can confirm what applies to you.
The difference
This is not health insurance.
It does something different.
Health insurance
Generally helps address:
- Doctors
- Hospitals
- Treatment
- Medical procedures
- Healthcare expenses
GME ACTION
Focuses on eligible:
- Medical transportation
- Emergency transportation
- Transportation assistance
- Repatriation
- Return transportation
- Travel-related assistance benefits
GME ACTION is designed to complement your existing preparation — not replace health insurance.
Transportation risk
Repatriation is the surf-travel risk
Care abroad is one problem; getting home when you can't sit up on a commercial flight is another entirely. Membership exists for that second problem.
Average air-ambulance charges vary widely by distance, aircraft and region; figures cited are based on publicly reported U.S. billing data and are illustrative only.
Get GME ACTIONMembership
Serious member benefits.
Surprisingly affordable.
One international surf trip costs more than several years of membership.
Solo riders & racers
Monthly
Billed monthly
~$1.63/day for protection
- Emergency transport coverage
- 24/7/365 service
- Nationwide + global
Annual
Billed yearly
~$1.23/day for protection
- Emergency transport coverage
- 24/7/365 service
- Nationwide + global
Membership
Individual — Annual
Charged today
$450
Payments
One payment
Total
$450/year
This GME ACTION membership payment costs 1.3% of one average $36,000 air-ambulance bill.
Full refund within 14 days of purchase if no transport benefit has been used. Membership is not insurance. International travel requirements may apply.
Who it's for
Who joins
Surf travelers
For surfers booking strike missions and boat trips abroad.
Daily surfers
For people in the water before work most mornings.
Reef surfers
For surfers riding shallow, unforgiving waves.
Big-wave surfers
For surfers pushing into serious size and consequence.
Surf families
For households where kids and parents both surf.
Coastal road trippers
For surfers chasing swell up and down remote coastline.
How it works
Simple by design.
Join
Choose the GME ACTION membership that fits you or your family.
We coordinate transport and getting you home
Our team arranges eligible transportation to an appropriate facility and home when medically appropriate.
Use your member benefits when eligible
If an eligible event occurs, follow the assistance procedures provided with your membership.
In a life-threatening emergency, always contact 911 or the appropriate local emergency services first. Member assistance is coordinated through the 24/7 dispatch line at 1-833-GET-MVAC.
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Surf Trip Plan
For reef breaks, heavy days, travel and remote coast.
The distance problem
Surf travel is the definition of far from care — remote coast, foreign hospitals, long flights.
Worth knowing
- Reef injuries and head strikes are the two that turn a session into a transport problem.
- Boat trips put you hours from a road before anything else happens.
Not just when you're riding.
Benefits apply to a qualifying serious illness or injury, not only to injuries that happen during your sport.
FAQ
Surfing questions.
Straight answers.
Chase the swell.
Have a way home.
Get GME ACTION.
Enroll before the next trip is booked.
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GME ACTION is a membership program and is not health insurance. Member benefits are subject to applicable eligibility requirements, terms, conditions, limitations, geographic requirements, and the GME ACTION Member Agreement.