Incident involving Drop Bottle and Deep Diving
A group of CCR divers undertook a trip on a liveaboard to explore wrecks in the 80-120m range. On this particular occasion the boat was located some 100m from the reef […]
A group of CCR divers undertook a trip on a liveaboard to explore wrecks in the 80-120m range. On this particular occasion the boat was located some 100m from the reef […]
(Edit: Lapse made while typing in the title, I missed a ‘You’ out. See, we are all human!) I have just finished reading a chapter in Daniel Kahneman’s “Thinking. Fast […]
Destructive goal pursuit is the inability to stop an activity because the goal is so important (especially in the eyes of the leader) that it takes precedence over everything. Even when […]
The DISMS Annual Report covering the period 1 Jan – 31 Dec 2014 has now been published. The report has been compiled from incidents entered into DISMS occurring during this […]
This weekend has been a bad time for UK diving with three confirmed fatalities and one missing diver, presumed dead. The incidents all happened in different locations and the only […]
I recently took part in a discussion about pre-dive checklists and the need to create the environment where divers can question others if checklists are not done, or contain the […]
The following blog article from John Clarke made the social media this weekend following the successful TekDive USA the previous weekend where a compressed version of the article was presented […]
This report is a summary of all of the entries entered into the Diving Incident and Safety Management System (DISMS) online diving incident database from its inception […]
I am glad that I get details of incidents forwarded to me so that they can be added to DISMS so that others can learn from the incident, but I am […]
In January 2013, the Underwater Hyperbaric Medical Society gave permission to The Dive Forum to host a recently published paper by leading hyperbaric doctors and medical staff (1) concerning the […]