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HFiD: APPLIED SKILLS


Are you a diver who wants enhanced performance by being more knowledgeable and aware, through immersive practice and focused debriefs?

 

Do these sound familiar?

  • You want to develop exceptional communication skills and remove ambiguity.

  • You want to make sure your dive team is UNITED, and as well prepared as they can be for every dive.

  • You want to understand team interactions, decision-making and how successful dives can be made, not just have lucky outcomes.

  • You want to understand how external pressures and stresses impact individual and team performance and do something about them.

  • You want the confidence to say "no", "stop", or "we need to do this differently".

  • You want a methodology and tools so you can improve your own and your team performance after every dive.

If so, then you've come to the right place.

  • You want a better understanding of what’s happening when you dive and what potentially can go wrong.

  • You have experienced issues that you don’t want to happen again.

  • You know you're part of a team and you want to improve your team, leadership and followership skills.

This is what it is like...

Just imagine yourself after this course!

By the end of these two days you will have:

Improved Awareness

After spending two days understanding how events develop in the manner they do in your simulator, you'll take this learning and apply it to enhance your performance and safety in diving. You will have more tools to improve your situation awareness pre-, during, and post-dive so that each dive is safer and more informed than the last one. You will have gained, through personal reflection and direct application, the tools and behaviours that lead to successful outcomes and understand what factors and conditions lead to failure on dives, and what you can do to address them. You will have moved into the conscious competence zone when it comes to human factors in diving.

Deeper Knowledge

Theory is brought to life during immersive simulations, reflective and targeted discussions and debriefs, and deep dives into specific HF topics as they relate to your diving and the diving of others in the class. Irrespective of your level of diver training and dive experience, you will gain knowledge and applied skills over these two days. Although considered a more 'advanced' course compared to HFiD: Essentials, Open Water divers have learned as much as instructor trainers with thousands of dives. The only pre-course requirements are curiosity and the want to be better than yesterday. And who doesn't want to be better than yesterday? 

Critical Insights

There's no denying the facts. Those who have taken this immersive and reflective course have said they now see the world through fresh eyes - not just in their diving but in their 'normal' lives too. They have an emotional connection with the messiness of diving and work. And they've learned skills and been given tools that help them understand how to make their diving (and life) safer and more enjoyable. If you are an instructor or instructor trainer, the course will also give you more tools to develop your students and instructor candidates to deal with the 'messy world of diving.' 

But most of all:

You will experience and understand what it is to be part of a group that has become a team and has solved a critical problem around diving safety - how to build teams quickly (socially and in the training environment) and to learn from success and failure in a psychologically-safe environment. You can't get that anywhere else in diving in two days. 

You will be better than yesterday.

Scheduled Dates

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What have others said about this course?

Steve Malone

I wish I'd done this course sooner. HFiD concepts are honestly what's missing from pretty much all diver training from open water up to highly advanced technical diving.

A focus on learning technical diving skills is obviously essential, but that's only half the picture and most people never benefit from understanding how the concepts The Human Diver teaches can elevate their diving to the highest level of competency.

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Matt Randall

Avoiding adverse events in diving as a consequence of non-technical skills is not taught by most training agencies, although touched upon by some.

The Human Diver aims to address this situation through delivering proven methods and using evidence-based tools and techniques.

The bottom-line is that if you want to improve your diving-related goals, take the course.

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Huw Mundy

The course was truly unlike any other HF training I've completed (and I come from an aviation background), it was far more immersive and taught by instructors who were not just there to teach a course, but were clearly passionate about the subject.

The training software created stressful scenarios that tested us and allowed us to see our weaknesses and areas for improvement.

Unlike most training courses, the two days flew by.

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Paul Krauss

I learned so many things about myself and working with others. It was so impactful that I registered my wife to take it. I realized I had become too comfortable with my scuba diving and was already starting to relax on post-dive buddy checks and dive planning. Creating a no-blame culture where it is healthy to show vulnerability and learn from our mistakes could very well save your life and those who dive with you.

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HFiD: Applied Skills

  • Two full days of immersive, emotive and targeted training that will help you be better than yesterday.

  • Critical debriefs focusing on improving skills and techniques for decision-making, situation awareness, teamwork, and communications. 

  • HFiD: Essentials included free as pre-learning to develop baseline knowledge.

  • The Human Diver Wetnotes including DEBrIEF and UNITED-C frameworks.

  • Copy of Under Pressure: Diving Deeper with Human Factors.

This course gives an amazing insight into how to make teams stronger and more collaborative, but also how each of us needs to work to make that happen. We cannot just rely on colleagues but must also take responsibility ourselves.

Linda Richards

This course allowed me to broaden my scope of knowledge surrounding problem solving, laying of blame, looking at the big picture, by taking a step back and breathing. Taking this approach will limit knee jerk reactions and get to root causes and not the surface cause.

S.T.

I often find it challenging to truly grasp/engage with the components of courses that teach 'soft' skills, which are harder to practice in a classroom environment. I found the structure of the course, with a mix of learning modules followed by scenarios that actually required using the skills, to be extremely effective in solving this disconnect.

Chris Mills

What you'll cover!

Given the dynamic nature of the class, it is possible that not all of the topics will be covered, but as you've got HFiD: Essentials and the Under Pressure book, you're not missing out on the theory. The stories and simulators are much more valuable. 

Day 1

  • Introduction to Human Factors and Non-Technical Skills
  • Three simulator missions including one complex mission
  • Theory and reflection on teamwork, leadership and followership in diving.
  • Practical takeaways from Day 1 to your own diving

Day 2

  • Two complex missions.
  • Theory and reflection on improving situation awareness, decision-making, and communications skills in diving.
  • Practical takeaways from both days and setting goals for change post-class

Session 1 - Introduction to Human Factors and Non-Technical Skills

Session 2: Baseline team performance in the simulator

Session 3: Teamwork including briefing (UNITED-C) and DEBrIEFing

Session 4: Leadership & Followership - developing your team

Session 5: Mission #2, let's see the improvement

Session 6: Complex Mission #1

Session 7: Reflection on Day 1 and application to your diving

Session 8: Situation Awareness

Session 9: Complex Mission #2

Session 10: Decision-making and cognitive biases

Session 11: Communications

Session 12: Complex Mission #3

Session 13: Reflection on Days 1 and 2 and application to your diving

Session 14: Debrief and goal setting post-course

Plus all these extra Bonuses!

Each attending student gets:

  • Free access to Essentials ($97)
  • The Human Diver Wetnotes ($60)
  • Under Pressure ($40).
  • Briefing and debriefing guides.
  • Ongoing coaching support post-class.

 

Award Winning Content

The Human Diver has won awards at

  • 2018 TekDiveUSA Technical Diving Conference - “For innovation and/or product design that has increased the safety and extended the field of technical diving.”

  • 2022 OzTek - “For exceptional contribution to the growth and development of diving.”

  • 2023 Chartered Institute of Ergonomics Award for Communication - "Outstanding communications...for successfully communicating and promoting the value of human factors and ergonomics to new audiences through sustained activity."

HFiD: Applied Skills.

  • Improved Awareness
  • More Knowledge
  • Critical Insights
  • The opportunity to influence diving safety
  • Days of an immersive experience you won't get from ANY of the training agencies.
  • Plus loads of bonus materials.

HFiD: Applied Skills.

  • Improved Awareness
  • More Knowledge
  • Critical Insights
  • The opportunity to influence diving safety
  • Days of an immersive experience you won't get from ANY of the training agencies.
  • Plus loads of bonus materials.

100% Money Back Guarantee

We are so confident that you’ll benefit from this

ESSENTIALS OF HUMAN FACTORS IN DIVING Class

that if you’re not 100% happy with it we’ll refund your money.

All we ask is that you provide some robust feedback within a month of buying the ESSENTIALS OF HUMAN FACTORS IN DIVING Class as to why the learning didn't happen and how we can make the class better.

What do you have to lose?

When are the courses? Where do I sign up? 

Plano, Texas

6 Places Available

February 14th, 2026 - February 15th, 2026

08:30 - 17:30

Plano, Texas

Instructor: Jenny Lord

Price: USD 550

Tulum, Mexico

6 Places Available

February 17th, 2026 - February 18th, 2026

08:30 - 17:30

Underworld Tulum

Instructor: Lanny Vogel

Price: USD 500

Orange County, CA

6 Places Available

February 21st, 2026 - February 22nd, 2026

08:30 - 17:30

Orange County, CA

Instructor: Jenny Lord

Price: USD 550

Plano, Texas

6 Places Available

March 14th, 2026 - March 15th, 2026

08:30 - 17:30

Plano, Texas

Instructor: Jenny Lord

Price: USD 550

Seattle, Washington

6 Places Available

March 21st, 2026 - March 22nd, 2026

08:30 - 17:30

Eight Diving, Seattle, WA

Instructor: Jenny Lord

Price: USD 600

Toronto, CA

6 spaces remaining (up to 12)

March 25th, 2026 - March 26th, 2026

08:30 - 17:30

Holiday Inn, Toronto Airport

Instructors: Gareth Lock

Price: CAD 995

Bali, Indonesia

8 spaces remaining

April 14th, 2026 - April 15th, 2026

08:30 - 17:30

TekDeep Asia, Bali

Instructors: Gareth Lock and Mike Mason

Price: AUD 1150 (AUD 950 course, AUD 200 travel costs)

Great Lakes, MI

11 spaces available

September 12th, 2026 - September 13th, 2026

08:30 - 17:30

Alpena, MI (Great Lakes)

Instructor: Gareth Lock

Price: USD 800 (USD550 course, USD 250 travel costs)

Divescapes. Edmonton, CA

6 spaces available

October 18th, 2026 - October 19th, 2026

08:30 - 17:30

Edmonton, CA

Instructor: Gareth Lock

Price: CAD 950

Divescapes. Edmonton, CA

6 spaces available

October 18th, 2026 - October 19th, 2026

08:30 - 17:30

Edmonton, CA

Instructor: Gareth Lock

Price: CAD 950

If there isn't a course that matches your time/location, please get in touch via the contact page and we will see what we can do. We normally suggest finding 2-3 other committed people in the 'local' area and we can go from there.  

Do you have any burning questions left?

Click on the + below to get the answer? If it's not covered, get in touch via the contact page

What is the financial investment?

This depends on the instructor, but the baseline cost is approximately £450/USD500pp for the two-day course. No diving, but you'll get something that will add value for the rest of your life. 

What technology do I need to complete the class?

For HFiD: Essentials, you only need a web browser. In some cases, for the HFiD: Applied Skills course, students need to bring a laptop to run the software via a web browser. Your instructor will let you know about this in the pre-course emails.

How long does the course take to complete?

The classes normally start at 08:45 and run until 17:30 each day. There are breaks in the morning and afternoon, and 45-60 mins for lunch.

Do I get a C-card or Certificate?

You do get a certificate which you can use for continuing professional development.

The course is not currently underwritten by any of the diver training agencies.

How long do I get access to the course?

You have lifetime access to HFiD: Essentials. When we update the course, you'll get access to that free of charge.

I'm an instructor, can I get a discount for my students?

Not directly for the class, but speak to an instructor.

Still not sure?

 

Diving takes place in an inherently hazardous environment. Technical skills (buoyancy, propulsion, trim, and equipment handling etc) and technology (CCR, scooters, dive computers...) will only get you so far in terms of enhancing your underwater performance - no matter how shiny the piece of equipment!!

We take our brain on every dive, and this course gives you the practical knowledge and tools to make better decisions, communicate more clearly, and be more aware because you've gained practical knowledge that is applicable and actionable immediately.

Waiting will not solve your gaps in knowledge and there will never be a perfect time to start than now. 

So why not start today and be better than yesterday.