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I still have a very vivid memory from a tech diving class I took, even though it was almost 3 years ago. There were 3 students on the class plus an instructor and the memory in question involved me doing an emergency drill. From the plan and brief I knew that the drill was going to happen and I k...
Story 1: Two cave/tech divers mislabelled each other’s stage cylinders the night before the dive. Because of distraction, back-to-back analysing and labelling, the bottle marked “EAN32 travel” actually contained EAN50, and the one marked “EAN50 deco” contained 32%. Underwater, they executed thei...
The following accounts were taken from social media posts following a fatality in poor visibility in an inland dive site. The comments have been modified slightly. As this blog is focused more on decision-making for instructors, it will focus on the bigger, but often invisible, decisions that tak...
Are you being heard? Are you creating the space to be heard? At the end of the season, we took a mixed group of fun divers to the Farnes Islands (United Kingdom). ‘Fun’ divers plus two sets of students who were finishing off some training programmes with ‘real world experience’. The forecast was...
When the Team Isn’t a Team I was part of a ‘team’ that was undertaking some training prior to a reassessment for a technical diver training programme. There were three of us involved. Two of us had been fairly busy developing our team and technical skills, making sure that we could stay neutrall...
Divers and instructors don’t learn because it requires investment and change, and that is hard. Organisations don’t learn because the operational or 'local' safety problem is not theirs. This blog summarises the free webinar I gave earlier this year, which looks at the death of 18-year-old diver...
When a diver dies or something goes badly wrong underwater, the same questions bubble to the surface: Why did this happen? Who is responsible? Could it have been prevented? Those questions are human. They stem from a need to make sense of tragedy, to restore trust, and to reassure ourselves that...
How many decisions are present on this dive? Two 'Advanced Open Water' divers with less than 20 dives each took part in a wreck dive in 16 metres in Scapa Flow from a liveaboard boat. The current was discussed during the dive brief, during which it was highlighted that it would be quite strong w...
Um estranho no grupo Era o primeiro mergulho de Paul em um novo local. Seu companheiro habitual ficou doente e não pôde acompanhá-lo, mas Paul decidiu ir mesmo assim, pois já havia pago pela viagem. Ele chegou cedo, embarcou e montou seu equipamento; os outros sete mergulhadores chegaram juntos ...
A Stranger in the Group It was Paul’s first dive at a new dive site. His usual buddy got sick and could not join him, but Paul decided to go anyway as he had already paid for the trip. He arrived early, boarded the boat, and assembled his equipment; the other seven divers arrived together a few ...
