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SH155: How safe is your diving?
In this episode, we dive into the concept of psychological safety and its critical role in diving and team performance. Psychological safety…
1 year, 2 months ago
SH154: The Importance of Decision Making in Setting Goals: Ensuring “The Juice is worth the Squeeze”
In this episode, we explore the double-edged nature of goal setting—how it drives achievement but can also lead to risky decisions when pres…
1 year, 2 months ago
SH153: Why ‘They should have’, ‘...could have’ or ‘I would have..’ do not improve diving safety
In this episode, we explore the concept of counterfactual reasoning—our tendency to imagine how incidents could have been avoided by differe…
1 year, 3 months ago
SH152: The Bend is Uninteresting...The Related Decisions Are Much More So
In this episode, we explore a personal account of a Gareth’s experience with decompression sickness (DCS) and the critical decision-making p…
1 year, 3 months ago
SH151: When the holes line up...
In this episode, we explore Professor James Reason's Swiss Cheese Model, which helps explain how incidents occur when multiple safety barrie…
1 year, 3 months ago
SH150: Are you a good enough diver?
In this episode, we dive into the concept of "good enough" in diving and how it relates to decision-making, risk, and safety. We explore why…
1 year, 3 months ago
SH149: 'Choices': Guaranteed small loss or a probable larger loss, injury or fatality?
In this episode, we explore how decision-making under uncertainty plays a crucial role in scuba diving, drawing insights from Prospect Theor…
1 year, 3 months ago
SH148: Risk of diving fatality is 1:200 000. However, you cannot be a fraction of dead…!
In this episode, we explore how risk is perceived and managed in diving, where emotions, biases, and mental shortcuts often outweigh logic a…
1 year, 3 months ago
SH147: Dive safety leads to nothingness...and nothingness is unemotive!
How do you measure safety in diving? This episode dives into a real story of a dive team that adapted to an emerging safety risk when two di…
1 year, 3 months ago
SH146: Why ‘everyone is responsible for their own risk-based decisions’ isn’t the right approach to take to improve diving safety.
In this episode, we explore the decision-making challenges in diving, sharing a personal story of risky dives and lessons learned. A diver r…
1 year, 3 months ago