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It’s easy to think that unless you’re a dive guide or instructor that leadership doesn’t apply to you but that’s not true, everyone is a leader at some point. A leader is someone who understands why everyone is there, can communicate it in a clear manner so that others understand it to, and then ...
Football. Rugby. Hockey. Baseball. All of these are well-known team sports and very obviously so….the whole team needs to play well, working together, to allow the team to win. But what about diving? Where’s the teamwork in that? Let’s start with the basics; what do we mean by a team? Teamwork i...
Recently multiple people have sent me the story of Abraham Wald and the World War II bombers. This story described how during World War II analysts worked on improving the protection and survivability of bombers by determining the best location to place additional armour. Despite significant anal...
This is a 10-part series of blogs that will be published once a fortnight to bring the basics about human factors in diving to the fore. They won’t be long, they won’t have lots of jargon in them, and they will have a case study or series of examples to bring the theory to life. The reason for t...
Murphy’s Law says that if something can go wrong, it will. The problem is that Murphy is wrong. Rather, we should recognise that more goes right than wrong, even when the actions are being executed incorrectly. We need to move away from this binary thought process that says correct execution lead...
Niedawno opublikowałem w mediach społecznościowych post o wpływie kar na uczenie się, który był fragmentem pracy badawczej dotyczącej tego, co się stanie, jeśli zmienimy podejście do " śledztwa". "Wbrew sugestii zawartej w literaturze dotyczącej zgłaszania wypadków, że kara jest korzystnym ...
A recent post on a Facebook Group described a situation where a novice diver was taken to 45m and through an arch, well beyond their certification limits of either 18m or 30m (they only had 12 dives). “A few of my dive friends saw this dive watch picture and were really concerned for my safety ...
Human Factors! ‘Human factors’ is a huge topic. It is a scientific discipline that covers many different sorts of activities depending on where you are: Anthropometrics – how the human body fits or works with physical design. Cognitive psychology – how we make sense of the world and ‘make ch...
This particular blog is not intended to give you a simple answer to a complex problem, rather it is to encourage you to think about how you consider safety in diving, how you achieve it, and how the industry and communities help maintain it. The questions to consider are: Can you be safe and ...
The rational thing about human behaviour is that it is irrational! It is rational at the time to those involved, but it might appear to be irrational after the event by those outside the event, given that we know the outcome and we can easily join the dots. Humans respond well to positive reward...
