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SH249: Top Tips for Diving Instructors: Leadership - Creating the space for others to be heard
This episode explores why people in diving often don’t speak up, even when something feels unsafe, and why being “heard” matters just as much as bein…
2 months, 1 week ago
SH248: Top Tips for Diving Instructors: Teamwork
This episode looks at what happens when a dive “team” isn’t really functioning as a team, using a real training story where strong individual skills …
2 months, 2 weeks ago
SH247: At a system level, we don't learn from diving fatalities, and here's why
This episode explains why the diving industry struggles to learn from fatalities and argues that the problem is not one bad decision or one person, b…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
SH246: Top tips for Diving Instructors: Communication (especially the difficult kind)
Many dive instructors are facing a growing challenge: some students believe that paying for a course means they are guaranteed a certification card. …
2 months, 3 weeks ago
SH245: Asking Why. Telling Stories. Owning Accountability
This episode explores how the diving community responds when something goes badly wrong and why the choice between blame and learning really matters.…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
SH244: Top Tips for Beginner Divers: Decision Making
This episode looks at how many decisions can happen during a single dive and why decision-making is often harder underwater, especially for new diver…
2 months, 4 weeks ago
SH243: Top Tips for Beginner Divers: Situation Awareness
In this episode, we explore situation awareness, a key skill that helps divers notice what’s happening around them, understand what it means, and ant…
3 months ago
SH242: Top Tips for Beginner Divers: Psychological Safety & Just Culture
In this episode, we follow Paul, a diver who joins an unfamiliar group and stays silent when he feels unsure, leading to stress, separation from the …
3 months ago
SH241: Top Tips for Beginner Divers: Performance Influencing Factors
This episode looks at Ellie’s first overseas dive trip, where she discovered that being “ready” on paper doesn’t always mean performing well in real …
3 months, 1 week ago
SH240: Top Tips for Beginner Divers Leadership and Followership
This episode explores what happened when an inexperienced diver, John, assumed he was “just meant to follow” his far more experienced buddy, Shona- a…
3 months, 1 week ago