Jenny LordMastery in diving comes from the "herbs and spices"—small human factors techniques applied across teaching, liveaboards, guiding & fun dives: good briefings, debriefs, expectation-setting, shared language and lemons. Knowing better isn't doing better
Lanny Vogel Learning From Emergent Outcomes (LFEO) moves diving investigation beyond blame. Detailed analysis using the PETTEOT framework allows diving accident learning to go beyond the obvious cause to improving systems and procedures.
Dr Laura WaltonExperience only becomes learning once the brain has processed it. This piece explores how we metabolise events into lessons, why some get stuck as trauma, and how Human Factors helps divers work through difficult experiences and recover the learning.
Mike MasonSocial media doesn't fail us when serious diving incidents appear; it works as designed, rewarding certainty, outrage and judgement over curiosity. The cost is the silenced stories that hold the most learning. Before commenting, ask whether you're ai
Human factors, non-technical skills and learning from emergent outcomes for the divers who refuse the bad-apple story.
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