Solo diving is often framed as safer than buddy diving, but self-sufficiency and teamwork are not opposites. This blog explores drift, redundancy and how to stack the deck in your favour, whether you dive alone by choice or by necessity.
Poor buddy check. Inadequate training. Complacency. These are verdicts dressed as findings. A new taxonomy shows a better way to describe the conditions that shape diving performance, and diving now has its own fifty that we can use to be better
Divers assess hazards one at a time, but risks multiply rather than add. Research shows why we underestimate interactive risk, how familiar hazards and miscommunication compound, and the questions to ask before you hit the water. Chronic unease...
Are you fit to dive? Brent Webb of Scuba Adventures explores medical honesty, fitness, currency and competence in diving — and why the consequences of hiding a health condition extend to your buddy, your instructor and the people waiting at home.
Human factors, non-technical skills and learning from emergent outcomes for the divers who refuse the bad-apple story.
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