Top Tips for Technical/Cave Divers: Situation Awareness. Risk Perception is a critical skill - Experience Doesn’t Equal Judgement

Gareth Lock

Published on: 11/11/2025

Experience doesn’t equal judgement. Research shows it’s perception, not hours, that shapes safer choices. For divers, reflection, dialogue, and awareness build true competence—helping you see risk clearly and be better than yesterday.

EnglishSense-making, Decision-making, & Psychology

Top Tips for Diving Instructors: Situation Awareness

Published on: 24/09/2025

Scuba students often struggle not with skills but with situational awareness. Learn how to spot overload, build awareness, and teach safer diving.

Top Tips for Beginner Divers: Situation Awareness

Mike Mason

Published on: 05/08/2025

Top tips to improve situation awareness for beginner divers—learn how to stay safe, stay in control, and enjoy your dives with confidence.

EnglishSense-making, Decision-making, & Psychology

Reframing The Dirty Dozen - Part 3

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'.