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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...
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...
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...
A recent discussion about risk management in a remote diving location where a diver had suspected DCI is the prompt for this blog. While it was prompted by a remote location, the principles are applicable to all the diving we do. The first part of risk management is understanding and recognising...
Diving is an activity that takes place in a hazardous environment. We have not yet evolved to live in the water, and nor can we survive for very long underwater without some form of mechanical or technical support (therefore Darwinism doesn't apply!). In addition to drowning, we have other hazard...
"Aviation in itself is not inherently dangerous. But, to an even greater degree than the sea, it is terribly unforgiving of any carelessness, incapacity or neglect." The same goes for diving. And for the nuclear industry. So how have aviation and nuclear become so safe and what can diving learn f...
The purpose of any accident or incident investigation should be focused on learning and not blame or punishment as the two are pretty much mutually exclusive: the narratives you use to determine how and why it made sense to do what you did, can also be used as evidence of a breach of standards, p...
How do you make others feel safe and motivated to learn? This is the second part in a series of four blogs which looks at building psychological safety within your instructional setting or ‘fun’ diving environments. The first part was on INCLUSION SAFETY where I showed how to increase the chanc...
The recent case of Wes Skiles’ death on a rebreather dive in 2010 has brought home the stark reality that ‘complacency’ can kill. The use of the word “complacency" and the term "complacency, the silent killer” have come up frequently on social media in the last few days as a reason for the death....
