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This week Jenny penned a powerful blog about the death of one of her fellow divers and the inevitable jumping to conclusions, assumptions, and counter-factuals that took place. Unfortunately, this behaviour is common. Often the cry is "let's wait for the investigation" but the investigations that...
Those who have read many of the blogs on The Human Diver will recognise the term “a ‘Just’ Culture” but recent research I have conducted has indicated that there is some confusion about what this means to those in the diving community. This blog will hopefully address this so that we can continue...
"Two divers entered a wreck without laying a line. They entered a room, and due to some ineffective finning techniques and poor trim, along with percolation from the ceiling of the room, the room silted out quickly and they spent the next 10 mins in a panic trying to find their way out. Eventuall...
There are plenty of quotes out there relating to learning from mistakes. "Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes." - Oscar Wilde "You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself." - Samuel Levenson "Making mistakes sim...
Two weeks ago, I wrote a blog about the (in)ability to learn from near-misses because they are often treated as successes. Furthermore, the research behind the article also showed that those in leadership positions of organisations are rewarded for near-misses because the positive outcome contrib...
I spend a fair amount of my time talking about psychological safety and a Just Culture, and while they both can help teams and organisations learn and improve, in my opinion, they are subtlety different but interdependent. This blog will explain what each of the terms means and how they fit into ...
We think that we can learn from near-misses because we believe that we would recognise the circumstances prior to the event and do something about them in the future. The general definition of a near-miss is that something bad would have happened had it not been for some form of chance or lucky i...
An experienced cave diver (cave CCR, cave DPV, full cave, sidemount cave) undertakes what was planned to be a relatively simple OC sidemount (SM) dive for them. Go into the cenote, drop the O2 deco cylinder at 6m/20ft, scooter several thousand feet back into the cave, drop the bottom stage, scoot...
Over the past couple of weeks, I have been in contact with some of those who were on the Carlton Queen when it sank off the coast of Egypt on 24 April 2023. I heard the harrowing stories from four of those who were stuck below deck as it capsized and how they made their way out, having to make de...
This week I saw the image below posted online. I thought it was humorous because of the contrast between the message displayed on the board and the marking on the ground which showed that this was a cycle lane. I shared it with a cycling group on FB I am part of and the majority of people made cr...
