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In a recent Human Factors in Diving class we were on a dive where the members of the team were trying to complete a task. It was a mixed group of people, some knew each other well, others had met once or twice before and the rest were completely new to the group. It was also a mix of nationalitie...
Climbing out of the water and back aboard the dive boat in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, the Divemaster, who was giving me a hand with my equipment, checked my SPG and said, “you have 500psi leftover! You could’ve stayed down another 10 minutes!” Regardless of which organization issued your c-card, 5...
Diving is often described as a “safe” sport—relaxing, fun, and open to anyone who can pass a basic training course. Yet this simplicity is deceptive. True safety is not just the absence of accidents and incidents, but the active presence of barriers, defences, and a culture that supports learning...
Diving in the Baltic Sea We weren’t diving for pleasure. We had a job to do—marking and documenting selected large elements of a wreck. The pressure was immense. Many factors had to align perfectly at the same time: the team of professional divers, the ship’s crew, the support boats, and the wea...
While preparing for one of my Human Factors in Diving classes, I had a conversation with a friend, a diving instructor, about decision-making underwater. We discussed how situation awareness—or the lack of it—affects divers' choices. He shared a story about a training dive that perfectly illustra...
This blog is a reproduction of a cave fatality report produced by the CREER Line and Safety Committee in Mexico earlier in 2024. While it is cave-focused, there are (as always) lessons that can be taken from one domain to another. I provided some input on the HF aspects relating to this event, an...
Between 20 and 22 April 2023, hundreds of rebreather divers, scientists, military divers, commercial divers, and rebreather manufacturers attended Rebreather Forum 4. The videos from the conference were made available last year, and through tireless work, Dr Neal Pollock has completed the editori...
I have been asked a number of times to comment on a 'hypothetical' event published on the RAID website on 7 August 2024 as a learning opportunity. However, it appears that the story wasn’t hypothetical, and the person involved wasn’t directly consulted about what happened. The event had a ‘bad’ o...
Living and working in a very active diving area, I frequently hear people talking about courses they’re doing and what they’ve had to do to achieve certification. Sadly, based on not only that but also what I see in the water, it appears that standards often aren’t followed. As an outsider observ...
I recently put together some example materials for many of the training agencies to show the practical aspects of building teamwork into instructor activities, this included an output from the Chat-THD tool. The content of this blog was produced using the Chat-THD tool that is available to all L...
