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SH259: Top Tips for Technical/Cave Divers: Situation Awareness. Risk Perception is a critical skill - Experience Doesn’t Equal Judgement
This episode challenges the idea that more experience automatically means safer diving. Using research from aviation and real diving examples, it sho…
1 month ago
SH258: Top Tips for Technical/Cave Divers: Psychological Safety and Just Culture
This episode explores how everyday conversations between divers, even simple small talk, play a powerful role in building trust and safety. It introd…
1 month, 1 week ago
SH257: Top Tips for Technical/Cave Divers: Performance Influencing Factors - Even the best of us are only human
Technical diving often looks like it’s all about planning, rules, and equipment, but the biggest risk factor is still the human. This episode explore…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
SH256: Top Tips for Technical/Cave Divers – Leadership
This episode looks at the idea that all technical divers are leaders, even if they don’t see themselves that way, because their experience, behaviour…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
SH255: Top Tips for Technical/Cave Divers: Teamwork - It's more than a back up plan
This episode explores why teamwork is a critical survival skill in technical diving, not just a nice extra. Using a real training story where a teamm…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
SH254: Top Tips for Technical/Cave Divers: Communication
This episode looks at why communication in technical and cave diving often fails, even between skilled and experienced divers. Using two real dive st…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
SH253: Top Tips for Diving Instructors: Decision Making
This episode explores how instructor decisions in diving are shaped long before an accident happens, often by habit, pressure, and past success rathe…
1 month, 4 weeks ago
SH252: Top Tips for Diving Instructors: Situation Awareness
This episode looks at a common teaching challenge: when a student can complete the required skills but still isn’t ready to be certified. Through a p…
2 months ago
SH251: Top Tips for Diving Instructors: Psychological Safety and the Thumb Rule
This episode explores why calling a dive can be harder in practice than the famous “any diver can end any dive” rule suggests, especially for instruc…
2 months ago
SH250: Top tips for Diving Instructors: Performance Influencing Factors
This episode looks at why students — and instructors — sometimes struggle in dive training, even when the skills seem simple, and explains how perfor…
2 months, 1 week ago