Top tips for Diving Instructors: Performance Influencing Factors

Mike Mason

Published 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

Reframing The Dirty Dozen - Part 3

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'.

Stress - A challenge we all face

Mike Mason

Published on: 12/02/2025

Stress affects us all to some extent or other. By identifying and managing stressors, we can create better conditions for performance, decision-making, and teamwork—both in diving and in life.

Survival instinct: Reaction to stress