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Instrutor Tóxico: Porque uma maçã podre estraga o cesto inteiro

Muitas vezes falamos sobre segurança no mergulho em termos de equipamentos, procedimentos e normas. Mas aqui está a verdade incômoda: geralmente, as maiores ameaças à segurança do mergulho não vêm daí — elas vêm dos mergulhadores, às vezes na forma de má liderança. Deixe-me compartilhar uma situ...

Instructor Toxicity: Why one bad apple really does spoil the bunch

We often talk about safety in diving in terms of equipment, procedures, and standards. But here’s the uncomfortable truth: usually, the biggest threats to dive safety don’t come from them — they come from the divers, sometimes in the form of poor leadership. Let me share a real situation that un...

What do you mean, the damn box is missing again?

"We have just finished a nearly 50-minute dive on the beautiful Liberator wreck. The May sun quickly warmed us up on the surface, but the 14 degrees in the water still made us feel a little chilly in our thin thermals. On top of that, one of the divers came up to the deck cursing up a storm, and ...

What We Get Wrong About Psychological Safety in Diving

Psychological safety appears to have become a buzzword in diving, cropping up in social media, team debriefs, and conversations around leadership and performance. That is encouraging and great to see, because changing the language can change the world. However, popularity also breeds assumptions,...

The Challenge of Psychological Safety

Within the Human diver, we talk a lot about psychological safety, about the fact that when psychological safety is present, the team is more efficient, more successful, more engaged. We also say that as leaders and/or instructors, we should aim for psychological safety within our group. But how l...

CCR Diver Goes Hypoxic on Surface – What Causal Reasoning Taught Me About Learning from Events

An experienced CCR diver with 100s of dives was kitting up for a dive on a liveaboard boat. As the diver was about to get up from the bench, having not done their pre-dive checks on their rebreather, they realised they were light-headed and looked down to check the loop pO2 - their rebreather han...

The First Human Factors in Diving Liveaboard- Living our values

A few months ago, I got a call from Gareth who told me about a dive centre in Texas called Scuba Adventures, run by Brent Webb who wanted to add Human Factors into his upcoming liveaboard trip. I had a call with him and Mark S from Master Liveaboards who was equally as keen to get these skills on...

I thought: "WTF did you just say?" I actually said: ....nothing. How to say when it’s not okay

Here's the scenario. You’re on a boat preparing for a dive on the wreck of the Maine, a beautiful wreck in 30m/100ft off the South Coast of the UK. Although the wind is biting, the social nature of UK diving is keeping things warm. A newer diver, Sarah, is being briefed by the group’s self-appoin...

The Diving Professional: Leadership is not Optional

In the diving world, the first leader most of us are exposed to is either the dive master leading a group dive, or the dive instructor who delivered our training. We trust them and we listen to their advice and because we don’t know what we don’t know, we rarely challenge them on anything they sa...

Summary of RF4 Paper: Human Factors in Rebreather Diving

Between 20 and 22 April 2023, hundreds of rebreather divers, scientists, military divers, commercial divers, and rebreather manufacturers attended Rebreather Forum 4. The videos from the conference were made available last year, and through tireless work, Dr Neal Pollock has completed the editori...