TRAINING WITH THE HUMAN DIVER

LIKE NOTHING ELSE IN THE DIVING INDUSTRY


Are you a diver who wants enhanced performance by being more knowledgeable and aware, leading to safer and more enjoyable dives?

 

Do these sound familiar?

  • You know that you are part of a diving team and you want to be the best teammate, leader and follower you can be.
  • ⁠You want to be more aware during your dives, so you can be prepared if things don’t go as planned.
  • ⁠You realise there are gaps in your diving knowledge and want to become a better diver.
  • ⁠You have had a bad experience on a dive that you want to avoid in future by learning from your and others' experiences.
  • You would like to feel more comfortable about speaking up and changing behaviours within your dive centre, team or agency.

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...

The Core Human Factors in Diving (HFiD) Programmes

This online course enhances safety, performance, and enjoyment by focusing on human factors—how we think, communicate, and make decisions. Through engaging lessons and practical exercises, you’ll build stronger teams, improve communication, and make better decisions, leading to safer, more rewarding dives. Awareness. Knowledge. Performance. Safety. 

"What you learn in this course can easily mean the difference between life & death when you are underwater & things don't occur as planned." - J.S.

 

This face-to-face immersive two-day course takes your teamwork and communication in diving beyond the basics. Through experiential learning and critical reflection, you’ll deepen your understanding of human error, leadership, and communication. It’s not just theory—you’ll apply, adapt, and grow each day of the course, becoming a safer, more effective diver and teammate. Better than yesterday.

"Taking the Applied Skills course has been a transformative experience, providing me with valuable insights into my own behaviors, thought processes, and actions." - Barry Devillier

 

This live, interactive 10-module Masterclass takes a deep dive into human factors and non-technical skills for divers. Through discussions, reflections, and practical application, you’ll sharpen decision-making, communication, and operational risk management. Prevent errors before they escalate and build a stronger safety culture—because great divers think beyond the basics.

"Safety requires both physical skills and mental skills. This is the only dive course that focuses on and successfully delivers mental skills for safe diving. My only regret, after taking this course, was not having taken it sooner." - Daryl Goldberg

 

We provide deep insights, critical reflections, and practical knowledge in all of the training programmes provided.

Improved Awareness

After spending two days understanding how and why events develop in the manner they do, 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 application, what leads to successful outcomes and what factors and conditions lead to failure on dives, and what you can do to address them. You have moved into conscious competence. 

Deeper Knowledge

Theory is brought to life during immersive simulations, reflective and target discussions and debriefs, and deep dives into specific topics as they relate to your own personal diving and the diving of others in the class. Irrespective of your level of diver training and experience, you will gain knowledge and applied skills over these two days. Although considered a more 'advanced' course, Open Water divers with 'just' 20 dives have learned as much as instructor trainers with thousands. The only pre-course requirements are curiosity and the 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 have built the foundations for a personal culture of learning, along with gaining knowledge and awareness of how to influence the diving industry to be a safer, more enjoyable place. You will be a leader, even if you don't hold a title that infers leadership. You will be a trail blazer when it comes to improving the learning surrounding unexpected and unwanted events in diving.

You will be better than yesterday.

What have others said about this course?

Brian Slater

As a previous recreational dive instructor, now technical diver, and leader of non-diving organizations, I can whole-heartedly recommend this course as foundational to your diving, your career, and your personal life. The principles within, if you are attuned and open to learning, may just postitively influence your character across all domains.

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

A.M.

It would be beneficial for anyone to take this course because it's not only extremely informative and well-articulated, but also because it forces you to reflect on your personal experience on the topic. Our reflections then allow us to identify areas of mistakes or things we are doing well and therefore improve our instruction.

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Nils Jacobsen

As a technical and scientific diver, the course has opened my eyes to the many facets of human factors and deepened my understanding of how accidents unfold, even when everything seems like business as usual. Certainly a course that holds a lot of value for any diver.

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

C.J.

Very well put together course. Having done the Level 1 course prior to the Essentials, it is appealing how the concepts have been condensed without losing the plot or the essential details without oversimplification. Well organized in a stepwise fashion to make concept retention natural and illustrated with an excellent case study and additional resources.

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Essentials of HF for Divers

  • 3.5-4 hours of engaging content - 1/4 the time of OW eLearning but 10x more valuable!
  • Additional resources for those who want to dig deeper into the topics. 
  • Detailed case studies in each module to reinforce the topics. 
  • In-depth and emotive case study at the end to bring the theory to life.
  • Access to a learning-focused community. 
  • Affiliate links for graduates to help build a thriving community of ambassadors who want to help others be better than yesterday.

This is what is inside!

Each module is divided into lessons of approximately 5-15 mins long, meaning the content is delivered quickly and effectively. 

Module 1 - Introduction

Module 2: Human Factors and Non-Technical Skills

Module 3: 'Human Error', Violations and Normalisation of Deviance

Module 4: Psychological Safety and Just Culture

Module 5: Decision Making

Module 6: Situation Awareness

Module 7: Communication

Module 8: Teamwork

Module 9: Leadership and Followership

Module 10: Performance Shaping Factors

Module 11: Case Study

Module 12: Summary, Feedback and Personal Goals

Bonus Content #1

In viridi valle, in silenti valle.

  • Ubi flores parvi crescunt. Ibi murmurat aqua alba.
  • Et guttae resiliunt ubique. Ut singulos flores irrigent, etiam minimos.
  • Ut singulos flores irrigent, etiam minimos. Et in cacumine montis acuminati.
  • Ubi arbores robustae crescunt. Ibi flagellat ventus impetu acerbo et saevus. Ibi fulgur rubrum colit.
  • Et scindit in fragore tonitruo, maiora. Et scindit in fragore tonitruo, maiora.

Sursum, deorsum, in montibus et valle.

Bonus Content #2

In viridi valle, in silenti valle.

  • Ubi flores parvi crescunt. Ibi murmurat aqua alba.
  • Et guttae resiliunt ubique. Ut singulos flores irrigent, etiam minimos.
  • Ut singulos flores irrigent, etiam minimos. Et in cacumine montis acuminati.
  • Ubi arbores robustae crescunt. Ibi flagellat ventus impetu acerbo et saevus. Ibi fulgur rubrum colit.
  • Et scindit in fragore tonitruo, maiora. Et scindit in fragore tonitruo, maiora.

Sursum, deorsum, in montibus et valle.

HFiD: Essentials

This is a course which is suitable for all divers, from OW/AOW through to IT/CD and experienced cave, CCR and technical divers. It provides a grounding in the theory of human factors and non-technical skills with numerous activities to consolidate the learning so you can apply the knowledge immediately.

The course consists of 12 video-based modules of between 5-15 mins long with lots of additional reading for those who want to dig deeper into the topic and take their learning further.

This course also has subtitles in Spanish and Italian with other languages coming soon. Access can be made via PC/Mac/Tablet/Mobile Device and videos can be downloaded to watch offline. (This course is available at all times)

HFiD: Applied Skills

For divers who want to learn through experiential activities and quickly build teams, this applies not only to instructors, IT/CDs, and technical or cave divers but also to recreational divers who recognise the positive value of team diving in reducing errors and maximising performance.

Two days of highly emotive and positive learning to consolidate theory gained from the HFiD: Essentials class, which is included as pre-class learning.

The outcomes include enhanced situation awareness, more effective communication, stronger briefing and debriefing skills, and the ability to form a team quickly. This leads to improved learning in training scenarios and more successful exploration in 'fun' diving.

HFiD: Masterclass

For divers who want to get deeper into the theory of human factors and non-technical skills, with the opportunity for more detailed knowledge development and reflection.

This course takes place over ten weeks with each week’s 2 hour webinar consisting of a specific topic relating to human factors, non-technical skills and just culture with the goal of improving both your knowledge and practical skills to improve your diving safety and performance. A short piece of homework is required to be completed prior to the next webinar to consolidate the knowledge.

Outcomes are the ability to apply a different perspective to your diving so that you make better decisions because you have more targeted situation awareness, you are able to communicate more effectively with your students or teammates leading to a more productive training or ‘fun’ diving team, and finally, to create both a Just Culture and psychological safety in your local diving communities.

(This course runs twice per year,  Feb-Apr and Oct-Dec)

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?

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?

It is just $97 - you have lifetime access and the content is updated regula

What technology do I need to complete the class?

The only thing you need is a web-browser (PC, Mac, iOS or Android) and an internet connection. Videos can be downloaded for viewing offline e.g., while on a flight or on a liveaboard.

There is also an app which can e downloaded from the iOS app store (Search for 'The Human Diver') Android is coming soon.

How long does the course take to complete?

The class takes approximately 3.5-4 hours to complete but is arranged in 12 modules of approximately 5-15 mins which you can start and stop at anytime you want.

It’s really flexible so you can download them for viewing offline on PC or Mac too so you can learn whilst on the move.

"This was much more engaging and informative than all of the online eLearning courses I've done in aviation!" - HM

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 so you won't get a bit of plastic. Sorry! 

How long do I get access to the course?

You have lifetime access, and you’ll receive an update as we regularly update the class.

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

Yes, The Human Diver runs an affiliate scheme whereby you can purchase credits and then provide the course to your student at for discounted fee or for free. Please get in touch via the contact page.

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 the HFiD programmes give you the boost to make better decisions, communicate more clearly, and be more aware because you've gained practical knowledge that is applicable and actionable tomorrow.

Waiting will not solve your gaps in knowledge - now is the perfect time to start. If you're not happy, there is always the 100% money back guarantee for the HFiD: Essentials course.

So why not start today and be better than yesterday.