For divers who want enhanced performance by being more knowledgeable and aware, The Human Diver is the best for you because you will:
Learn from experts
At The Human Diver, youâre not just learning from experienced instructors - youâre training with elite professionals.
Our Human Factors in Diving instructors come from high-performance team backgrounds where decision-making, situation awareness, and safety are paramount. They are all experienced team divers and many are also technical, cave and rebreather diving instructors.
Our instructors empower you to make better decisions and operate with heightened awareness in order to become a better diver.
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Be more aware
Whether youâre diving within a team or even a team of 2, The Human Diver fosters a culture of awareness, teamwork, and a âJustâ culture, ensuring that you not only improve your technical skills but also develop the mindset necessary for safer, more effective and more enjoyable diving.
The Human Diver promotes a learning environment that is altruistic, professional, and inclusive, helping you to develop confidence, resilience, and better decision-making skill.
Awareness is developed not just 'in the dive' but also how success and failures occur in diving through reflection and event analysis.
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Be part of a community
More than just an organisation focused on learning, The Human Diver cultivates a global community of influencers and leaders with the ability to create a tribe and promote a culture of safety and awareness in the global diving industry.
With a team that embodies passion, knowledge, altruism, and a lack of ego, The Human Diver ensures that every diver walks away, not just as a better diver, but as a more self-aware and capable leader within their diving community.
The community is growing and having a positive influence on change across all diving sectors. Be part of it.
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"Safety is not just the absence of incidents and accidents, but rather the presence of barriers and defences, and the capacity to fail safely."
Todd Conklin
Develop a clearer picture of what it means to build capacity and be able to fail safely.
The Core Human Factors in Diving (HFiD) Programmes
This online course enhances safety, performance, and enjoyment by focusing on human factorsâhow we think, communicate, and make decisions. Through engaging lessons and practical exercises, youâll build stronger teams, improve communication, and make better decisions, leading to safer, more rewarding dives. Awareness. Knowledge. Performance. Safety.
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 This face-to-face immersive two-day course takes your teamwork and communication in diving beyond the basics. Through experiential learning and critical reflection, youâll deepen your understanding of human error, leadership, and communication. Itâs not just theoryâyouâll apply, adapt, and grow each day of the course, becoming a safer, more effective diver and teammate. Better than yesterday.
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 This live, interactive 10-module Masterclass takes a deep dive into human factors and non-technical skills for divers. Through discussions, reflections, and practical application, youâll sharpen decision-making, communication, and operational risk management. Prevent errors before they escalate and build a stronger safety cultureâbecause great divers think beyond the basics.
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ABOUT THE HUMAN DIVER
Hey there! I'm Gareth
Iâm the Founder and Director of The Human Diver, and best-selling author of Under Pressure. With twelve other Human Diver instructors, we help divers and teams improve safety and performance by bringing human factors and just culture into daily practice. Through award-winning online and classroom-based learning programmes we transform how people learn from mistakes, and how they lead, follow and communicate while under pressure.
Weâve trained more than 600 people face-to-face and 2500+ online across the globe, and started a movement that encourages curiosity and learning, not judgment and blame.
Meet the TeamTestimonials
Susanne S.
"The human factors course was an extraordinary experience. First, it helped to create a friendly environment to share and learn. During teamwork, the special moments were unexpected situations that forced us to replan and communicate effectively, similar to real diving and no diving moments. I strongly recommend this course for divers and no divers!"
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Jason C.
"I found this training to be among the most excellent I've partaken in.Â
The classroom days were fun and engaging, structured in such a way that we were kept on our toes but never rushed.
I would recommend this training not only to divers, but to anyone in possession of a brain who would like to work effectively with other people!"
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Paul T.
"This program brings everyone, no matter what background or experience to the same level. It forges teamwork in minutes rather than days, or weeks, or even months. Explanations of complex ideas and statements were made easy to understand so that retention is assured.
The Human Diver is valid for every diver, no matter whether that be an Open water Diver or a Trimix Rebreather Cave Instructor Trainer."
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Andzrej G.
"All the aspects of the course were known to me. I did Essentials, the 10-week program, read most of the blogs and several of the 'reading materials'. Still this was an eye-opener. It's like learning buoyancy, trim and proper movement in the water column. You can know the theory, train and apply all the skills, but until you get yourself filmed and watch it several times, you can begin to understand how it works and how to improve working on yourself. So it was like that film."
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Matt D.
"This course is a must for any organisation whether involved in diving or not, human factors transpose in to all teams and can help provide the framework for building and fostering a just culture within any organisation"
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Nevo V.
"I came to this course after taking the 10-week series a few months before. This course helps turning theory into practical tools through a process of trial and error which puts a mirror on your own and the other studentsâ behaviours and reactions when working in a team. Afterwards they are analyzed together to create awareness of those behaviors, so making it easier to identify them when they reoccur in the future."
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