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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…
3 months, 2 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…
3 months, 2 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…
3 months, 3 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…
3 months, 3 weeks 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…
3 months, 4 weeks 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…
4 months ago
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…
4 months 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 …
4 months, 1 week 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…
4 months, 1 week 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. …
4 months, 2 weeks ago