How much do you care about your safety?

Most accidents and adverse events in diving are not down to undetected technical failures but due to our fallibility as humans. 

Accidents and incidents are surprises! They often come from a breakdown in communications, poor decision-making and misplaced situational awareness.

Improved Decision Making in Diving

After completing this online program, you will not only have improved situational awareness to see accidents developing and prevent mishaps from occurring, but also understand how to make better decisions and learn from them.

Perdix Offer Closed (But You Can Still Learn Here)

FREE Giveaway!

If you purchase the online class before midnight 7 September and complete it by midnight (GMT+1) 30 September 2018 you will be entered into a draw to win a brand new Perdix Dive Computer worth $849 from Shearwater. 
Your odds are as high as 1:50 to win a Perdix.
For every 100 people who complete the class, there will be a Perdix on offer. 101 people, your odds are 1:50!

Award Winning Programme

At the 2018 TekDiveUSA technical diving conference attended by more than 500 delegates, the online micro-class was awarded the Innovation award “For innovation and/or product design that has increased the safety and extended the field of technical diving.”

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What Will You Learn in This Program?

This module provides an oversight of the class, what to expect and why understanding what human error is about is so important if we want to improve diving safety and personal/team performance. 

Decision-making might appear to be a simple concept but this module will describe a couple of the decision-making models which research and practice has shown to be valid. If you understand how your decisions are made, then you are more likely to make safer and more effective ones.

Situational Awareness is described in some of the diver agency training materials as a way of saying ‘Pay more attention’. This module will describe what SA is about, how it is made up and most importantly, what is likely to lead to ‘lost SA’. Having good SA is essential to effective decisions.

Communications links all of these non-technical skills. If we don’t have good communication skills, then our leadership, followership and teamwork WILL fail and accidents are more likely.

Through teamwork, we can achieve far more than individual divers can. We can also operate more safely. However, teamwork isn’t just the buddy system, it is far more than that. For those who are instructors, you are part of the student team and that means you need to be aware of how to develop effective teams.

Leadership is present on all dives. It doesn’t have to be (and isn’t very often) autocratic, but there needs to be a clear idea who is leading the dive, even on a fun dive. Without effective leadership and followership (supporting the leader), then the team will fail and that can lead to an incident, injury or death.

Inappropriate stress and fatigue lead to sub-optimal performance of technical and non-technical skills. Do you know what your stress triggers are? Do your team mates know? This module will give you some tools to use to reduce the adverse effects of stress & fatigue.

This case study involves a diver who made a rapid ascent from 60m/200ft to the surface in 120 secs. Unfortunately he died. The case study builds on all of the knowledge in the previous 7 modules and shows how the lack of non-technical skills can lead to incidents and accidents and what can be done to prevent them.

 A Just Culture is where human fallibility is accepted as a reality and that divers do not aim to be negligent or malicious, despite the adverse outcomes. A Just Culture is essential if we are to learn from the incident reports submitted by looking at ‘how’ it made sense and not just looking for someone to blame.

The final module pulls all the other modules together showing how learning and practicing non-technical skills can improve your diving safety.

FREE Giveaway!

If you purchase the online class before midnight 7 September and complete it by midnight (GMT+1) 30 September 2018 you will be entered into a draw to win a brand new Perdix Dive Computer worth $849 from Shearwater. 
Your odds are as high as 1:50 to win a Perdix.
For every 100 people who complete the class, there will be a Perdix on offer. 101 people, your odds are 1:50!

Diving is risky! Improve your risk savviness.

Risk of a fatality in diving has been stated as 1:200 000 dives. But for you, the risk is 1 or 0, and you only find out afterwards. You cannot have a fraction of a death or injury. Understanding how human factors impacts your safety is essential to more fun and better informed risk taking.

A Sneak Peek Inside Your Course!

This program features 150 mins of engaging video with case studies and practical exercises to demonstrate and practice the value of improved decision making, increased situational awareness, communications tools, guidance for effective teamwork and leadership in diving.

 

"Is it worth doing? Absolutely. Regardless of agency, current skill set or certification, this course will increase your overall awareness of awareness, stress management and leadership to name resulting in a more effective individual and team performance, both in diving, and in ‘the real world. And at £69 it won’t break the bank either. Far cheaper than any agency specialty course, and just as valuable"

Tim Gort
Owner Rec-to-Tec, TDI/SDI Instructor, BSAC FCD

"This course will provoke more thoughts about awareness, team building skills, peer pressure, stress, how to be a good leader and follower, task loading, and taking steps to becoming safer. It doesn't matter the agency you've learned from or the level of diver you are. This is something that everyone can learn from and evaluate themselves and what they can do differently."

Becky Kagan Schott
Award Winning Underwater Photographer and Videographer and CCR Instructor

"Someone once asked me what the difference between Knowledge and wisdom is; Knowledge is gained from one's own experience, Wisdom is obtained from others experience. I feel that this class truly embodies this quote."

Jacqueline Patek
OW diver and OR nurse

Frequently Asked Questions

150 mins of engaging video with case studies and practical exercises to demonstrate and practice the value of improved decision making, increased situational awareness, communications tools, guidance for effective teamwork and leadership in diving.

As well as videos, there are numerous referenced papers and links for those who want to delve deeper into the topic and improve their learning.

Audio-only files are available as well as written transcripts for each module.

There is no product like this anywhere in the world which brings all these topics under a single banner with the aim of improving diving safety, as well as increasing personal and team performance in diving.

You will get access to our online learning platform which can be viewed using PC, Mac, iOS and Android devices. For those who travel lots, there is an ability to download the videos and watch them offline too.

The course is not underwritten by any of the diver training agencies so you won't get a bit of plastic. However, you do get a certificate from Accredible which you can use for continuing professional development and you will keep having access to the class. You don't need to pay anything else when I add material to the class either.

Human Decision Systems in Diving

After completing this online program, you will not only have improved situational awareness to see accidents developing and prevent mishaps from occurring, but also understand how to make better decisions and learn from them.

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