We Know, and We Say Nothing
by: David CharbonnierPublished on: 11/06/2026Six divers died at sixty metres in the Maldives. The mechanisms behind such deaths — outcome bias, drift, nitrogen narcosis, the trust-me dive — are known and predictable. Why serious divers die in foreseeable conditions, and what guards against it.
Cause Reason. Excuse. Three Words Doing Three Very Different Things.
by: Gareth LockPublished on: 24/05/2026The same statement can be a cause, a reason, or an excuse. The words don't change. What was the intent of the words? This blog draws the lines between the three, showing why incident conversations keep getting stuck on them, and need to move on
Why Investigations Stop Where They Stop
by: Gareth LockPublished on: 23/05/2026Every diving incident report has a stop-rule, an invisible line where analysis ends. This blog draws on safety science studies to show how cause is socially constructed, and why the diving community's "lessons learned" are shaped by who is looking
The Structure of This Diving Tragedy Was Not Abnormal. The Scale Was.
by: Gareth LockPublished on: 22/05/2026Why does the diving community react to a fatality the way it does? A Tennessee fatal medication error, a Maldives cave, and the structural conditions both events share. The conditions that led to six diving deaths happen regularly but not together.
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