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In October 1935 at Wright Airfield in Dayton, Ohio, a brand new prototype aeroplane crashed shortly after takeoff, killing the pilot, Major Hill, who was considered to be one of the most capable test pilots of his time. The cause? “Pilot error”. This aeroplane was far more complicated than anythi...
It might seem to be obvious that the more experience we have, the more accurate the outcomes of our decision. People also say to get better you should practice more, even more specifically they say ‘Perfect practice makes perfect’. The problem is that perfect practice and experience aren’t the s...
Last fall I presented at the first-ever Human Factors in Diving Conference arranged by Gareth Lock and the topic of my presentation was how to integrate Human Factors training into technical diving courses. While I was primarily talking about how to bring this education into existing technical an...
A few years ago I was assisting as a simulated victim on day one of the practical phases of a PADI Rescue Course at an inland dive site. Apart from me, there were two students, who I shall call Jon and Dave, an instructor, a DM and another assistant, like me, a qualified rescue diver with about ...
This statement is the basic premise behind effective situation awareness. We perceive data, we make sense of it in the here and the now, and then we make an educated guess as to what the future might look like. It is an educated guess because we can never be 100% certain what the future will look...
On 24-25 September 2021, the first-ever Human Factors in Diving Conference ran. There were 27 speakers from across the globe (NZ, Australia, Dubai, Europe, USA and Mexico) supported by the platform hosts (LexGo Live) who were operating across three different zones in the US and a media company re...
“The root cause of an accident is our imagination” - Nippin Anand Many cave courses have accident analysis as a key element of instruction because it shows how and why certain procedures have developed over time and are executed in the manner they are. Therefore, you might think that the headlin...
I recently had a conversation with an instructor trainer about one of the most powerful ways to improve feedback and reduce authority gradient. This is achieved by talking about a mistake or error they’d personally made on that dive to show the students that they were fallible and thereby encoura...
…but 94% would like one used in an operation on themselves…! Atul Gawande gave four presentations before Christmas as the 2014 Reith Lectures’ presenter (BBC iPlayer downloads and transcripts can be downloaded from here). During these presentations, he highlighted ways in which the health...
How do you make others feel safe enough to challenge the status quo, innovate, and make things better? This is the fourth and final part in a series of blogs which looks at building psychological safety within your instructional setting or ‘fun’ diving environments. The previous three blogs are...
