Top tips for Diving Instructors: Performance Influencing Factors

Top tips for Diving Instructors: Performance Influencing Factors by: Mike MasonPublished on: 09/09/2025

Understand how stress, fatigue, environment, and time pressure affect both student learning and instructor decision-making, and what to do about it

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Top tips for Diving Instructors: Performance Influencing Factors

Reframing The Dirty Dozen - Part 4

by: Published on: 18/06/2025

Errors and violations don't just happen in isolation. Fatigue, lack of assertiveness and norms are all factors contributing to errors. They and others make up the 'Dirty Dozen'.

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Reframing The Dirty Dozen - Part 4

Reframing The Dirty Dozen - Part 3

by: Published on: 11/06/2025

Errors and violations don't just happen in isolation. Explore the third part of this series in human factors in diving: Pressure, lack of awareness and lack of knowledge. They and others make up the 'Dirty Dozen'.

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Reframing The Dirty Dozen - Part 3

Brrrr- Cold water and the effects on our brain

by: Published on: 30/08/2023

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Brrrr- Cold water and the effects on our brain

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