Human Factors analysis of the 2004 Calimba cave-diving double fatality—exploring causes, lessons, and safer diving through just culture and improved decision-making.
Gareth LockEven the best plans fail underwater. Real safety in technical and cave diving comes from resilience, mastering fundamentals, practising failures, and adapting when the plan collapses. Build skills that let you be better than yesterday.
Lanny Vogel How to build trust, inspire confidence, foster psychological safety, and lead a team. Be the diver you would wish to follow!
Lanny Vogel Dive instructors: Build psychological safety. Encourage students to call dives without fear. Stronger learning, safer teams
Lanny Vogel Top tips for cave divers and technical divers. A real-life example of how Normalisation of Deviance can result in unsafe decisions in cave and technical diving, and what we can do to reduce incidents and accidents that come from it.
A comprehensive report from the CREER safety and line committee into a fatality in February 2024. It is of note because it includes commentary about HF and the wider contextual factors.
Human factors, non-technical skills and learning from emergent outcomes for the divers who refuse the bad-apple story.
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