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 […]
Category Archives: Risk
How Much Are You Willing to Risk?
(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 […]
The Devil is in the Detail…
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 […]
Voluntary Risk vs Involuntary Risk
As I have progressed through the vast amounts of literature researching the role of Human Factors in Diving Incidents and what the sport diving community can learn from other more […]
The Public Discussion of Diving Incidents…
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 […]
Violations: Good, bad or something we don’t talk about?
I came across this excellent article Violations in a Positive Safety Culture which looked at whether it is a good idea to have violations, whatever they may be, in an […]
Improving Diving Safety By Changing Attitudes to Incident Reporting
This article was submitted to a number of magazines earlier this year and discusses how a change in attitude is required if we are to improve diving incident reporting. ============================================= […]
Eurotek 2012 – A Fantastic Event, and not just because I was presenting!
This was the 3rd such technical diving conference to be held in the UK and was organised by Leigh Bishop, Roz Lunn and Mark Dixon; unfortunately Crispin Brake who joined […]
It Only Takes One Dive Where Complacency is Present…
Tonight I had a long chat with someone who was on a dive which had the potential to be really good. However, through the many links in the chain of […]
Medical Issues, At what point do we stop chasing…
This post is somewhat emotive and as a consequence, could generate some discussion. I do not believe there is a right and wrong answer to the question posed – at […]
