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Introduction This blog re-examines a cave diving double fatality from a Human Factors perspective. The event took place in System Sac Actun near Tulum, Mexico in December 2004, and is familiar to many cave divers. It was well documented at the time, and generated some spirited and controversial ...
This blog follows on from the blog yesterday (26 Nov 25) about the practical steps you can put in place, so that Non-Technical Skills (NTS)/Human Factors in Diving (HFiD) become core elements of your diving, be that at an individual/team level or at a dive centre/club or organisational level. Th...
Divers love gear. They love the shiny stuff. You only have to read the social media posts about the latest computer, DPV, CCR, or BCD/wing that you need to have (or someone has just bought). We love the comfort of “how we’ve always done it.” or “My instructor told me to do it that way.” However, ...
The Hidden Depths of Small Talk You’re sitting on the bench at the dive site, chatting with your buddy before the first dive of the weekend. “Morning mate, sleep well?”“Yeah, not bad. You?” This small talk doesn’t seem like much, a handshake, a nod, a few polite words, but that small talk is d...
Are all technical divers leaders? Leadership is one of the topics that we explore in the Human Factors in Diving: Applied Skills class, and the statement that “all instructors are leaders” often generates spirited discussion. The fact that as a diving instructor you are also a leader seems to be ...
Many years ago I was teaching a class with three students. Two were doing really well, completing all the skills and leading dives. The other….not so much. While he could do all of the skill requirements I could see there was “something” missing. I couldn’t explain what it was, but I knew I could...
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...
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...
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 ...
