Fifty Words Describe Diving Success & Failure and not one of them is complacency
by: Gareth LockPublished on: 19/08/2026Poor buddy check. Inadequate training. Complacency. These are verdicts dressed as findings. A new taxonomy shows a better way to describe the conditions that shape diving performance, and diving now has its own fifty that we can use to be better
One plus one equals ten: How risks in diving interact in a non-linear way
by: Gareth LockPublished on: 19/08/2026Divers assess hazards one at a time, but risks multiply rather than add. Research shows why we underestimate interactive risk, how familiar hazards and miscommunication compound, and the questions to ask before you hit the water. Chronic unease...
Miscommunication and Assumptions - What Could Possibly Go Wrong? A HF Perspective.
by: Gareth LockPublished on: 12/08/2026Miscommunication is normal. Assumptions are normal. What happens when they converge? A 500th-dive incident report: a first-time DPV, discounted warnings and an automatic 'OK' — a human factors look at why the decisions made sense at the time.
Kittens. ‘Blue’. Situation Awareness. Human Factors. Can you join those dots!
by: Gareth LockPublished on: 11/08/2026You can't teach what you can't name. Why 'common sense' fails dive instruction, how flawed situation awareness models blind students to what matters, and why precise shared language is the link between communication and decision-making underwater.
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