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As scuba divers, our underwater adventures are as much about discovery as they are about the constant journey of learning and adaptation. Whether you're fine-tuning your buoyancy or leading a diving team, the principles of loops in learning can and should be applied to the sport. Drawing from the...
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...
In last week's blog I asked myself if a student died after they’d been trained by me, would it be my fault? This week I got the call to say that a colleague hadn’t surfaced after a dive. It’s been a sobering reminder that this is real, that what we do has a degree of risk and that it takes more t...
I’ve had a disappointing week. I saw on social media that one of my previous students has just completed his advanced trimix course. That might seem like an odd thing to say, surely I should be celebrating his achievement? My disappointment comes because he only completed his previous course with...
This blog post was originally written in Polish. You can find the original here: https://www.thehumandiver.com/blog/walka-z-wlasnym-cieniem We are tribal beings. We have a strong internal need to distinguish our group from others. We can talk about tribes, divers, but also technical divers and r...
Last week I wrote about how to navigate the authority gradient and build psychological safety in a team. This week I’d like to approach it from the perspective of the student or team mate. As a member of a team it is often the case that you have less power than the leader. This can make it diffi...
Human factors, at its simplest level, is designing, deploying, and refining systems that make it easier to do the right thing and harder to do the wrong thing. That ‘thing’ can be many different things, and they are often interdependent: delivering a theory session in a training class and the...
Providing access to stories is one thing, getting people to recognise the value to them is another thing. Three examples of this come to mind. One diving, one relating to diving, and one which has nothing to do with diving. The latter two show how important it is to reflect on the situation, loo...
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...
We’ve been quietly building a culture of psychological safety in our team at The Fifth Point since 2021 when we first fell down the rabbit hole that is The Human Diver. I say quietly because it’s not one of those things where you can just send a memo out and boom, everything changes. It takes a ...
