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Living and working in a very active diving area, I frequently hear people talking about courses they’re doing and what they’ve had to do to achieve certification. Sadly, based on not only that but also what I see in the water, it appears that standards often aren’t followed. As an outsider observ...
I recently put together some example materials for many of the training agencies to show the practical aspects of building teamwork into instructor activities, this included an output from the Chat-THD tool. The content of this blog was produced using the Chat-THD tool that is available to all L...
The Human Diver team often gets asked what practical tools and techniques associated with human factors can be applied to our diving and our diving instruction to make a difference. What is it we are missing? The following blog is based on a guide provided to all of the training agencies showin...
Yesterday there was a diving fatality in Norway. I am not going to mention the name, as it isn’t public yet. When I found out about this event, my mind immediately started to think about who was involved, what might have happened, things that could or should have been done to prevent it (even tho...
In English, there is a saying "culture eats strategy for breakfast," which means that no matter how strong our strategy is, we will not succeed if the organizational culture is weak. Creating appropriate systems and structure will allow us to consume the wrong culture and perhaps replace it with...
I made an error on a dive the other day. That by itself isn’t unusual, we all frequently make mistakes, the majority of them will be very minor and we’ll correct them fairly quickly. This one, however, was different. This error was a violation- I knew I was doing something wrong but went ahead an...
There are a lot of misconceptions about Human Factors and in this blog I’d like to try and clear some of them up. Most of the misconceptions seem to happen because of misunderstanding of the ideas and concepts, some are a lack of knowledge and some are simplifications. "Human Factors is just com...
In last week’s blog I mentioned that there is often a degree of difference between what the people who wrote the standards imagine the work will look like vs what actually happens. I thought I’d dig a bit deeper into that, as that’s only half the story. Imagine it’s your job to write the standa...
“It’s ok, you’re a really good diver so we can start your Divemaster training a little early. We’ll sign you off as a Rescue Diver as we’ll more than cover it all during the course”. For anyone who’s been through this process, you will immediately see the problem. It is a prerequisite to be a Re...
SCUBA diving provides numerous opportunities for adventure and exploration beneath the waves. Be that within a flooded cave system, under the ice, or within an inland dive site like a river or quarry. However, this adventure comes with inherent (and irreducible) risks that demand respect and unde...
