SH315: The Insurance Illusion
This episode explores what diving insurance can—and cannot—do, drawing on insights from two highly experienced dive insurance underwriters. Insurance can help cover the financial consequences of an in...
17 Okt 10min
SH314: 5. Human Factors as an Operating System
In this episode, Brent Webb explores the idea that Human Factors should be more than a collection of concepts or courses—it can become the “operating system” of an organisation. Drawing on his experie...
14 Okt 7min
SH313: 4. Am I Enough?
In this episode, Connor Tate shares her experience of attending the Human Factors in Diving Conference while struggling with imposter syndrome as a researcher with limited diving experience. Despite u...
10 Okt 9min
SH312: Your Body Can't Cash the Cheque Your Ego Is Writing
We explore how capable, motivated divers can gradually push beyond safe limits when their environment rewards risk-taking and treats near misses as successes. Using the story of a young technical dive...
7 Okt 16min
SH311: 3. Don’t Wait - Learn From Everyday Work Using HOP Principles
This episode explores Human and Organizational Performance (HOP), an approach to safety that starts with the idea that people will always make mistakes, so we should focus on understanding why decisio...
3 Okt 6min
SH310: 2. More Than a Deep Dive: What a WWII Bomber Recovery Can Teach Us About Human Factors
This episode explores what really makes complex technical diving successful: not just helium, decompression and equipment, but the people using them. Using the recovery of the WWII B-24 Liberator Tuls...
30 Sep 8min
SH309: Change around Safety Culture is Really Hard
In this episode, Gareth Lock reflects on why improving diving safety requires more than telling people to follow the rules. Drawing on his experience in aviation, diving, and safety science, he explai...
23 Sep 14min
SH308: We Know, and We Say Nothing
This episode explores why experienced divers still die in situations that seem predictable, using the tragic 2026 Maldives cave accident as a starting point. It looks at how outcome bias, the normalis...
16 Sep 17min
