Top Tips for Diving Instructors: Situation Awareness

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.

'They Lost Situation Awareness'

When an adverse event occurs, we often hear the cause described as a 'loss of situation awareness.' This phrase by itself fails to yield the actual contributory factors that led to the event, limiting our ability to learn from the incident.

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