SH284: LEODSI and PETTEOT: A Systems Approach for Understanding How Diving Really Works
When something goes wrong in diving, people often ask “who made the mistake?”, but that question usually oversimplifies what really happened and stops us from learning. The Learning from Emergent Outc...
3 Juni 12min
SH283: You're Accountable. You're Responsible. You're It!
This piece explores how diving incidents are often misunderstood by focusing too quickly on blame rather than learning. It explains the important difference between responsibility (who was involved) a...
30 Maj 17min
SH282: Isolation Amplifies Drift: When Remote Operations Make Small Deviations Invisible
This blog by Michael John Snow explores how small equipment issues on a remote expedition vessel can gradually become accepted as “normal,” not because of poor decisions, but because of how isolated s...
27 Maj 11min
SH281: HMS Scylla Wreck Penetration Tragedy: Two Perspectives on Learning
This episode looks at the 2021 wreck diving tragedy on HMS Scylla, where three experienced divers entered the wreck and only one survived. It first examines the kind of reaction often seen on social m...
23 Maj 37min
SH280: This Could Happen to Any Dive Operator: What We Can Really Learn From The Perth Diving Academy Incident
This episode explores the serious incident in which two divers were accidentally left behind by a dive boat near Rottnest Island while diving with Perth Diving Academy. Rather than treating it as the ...
20 Maj 9min
SH279: The Tower Was Already Full of Holes
This episode looks at how diving incidents are often explained by blaming the last person involved, much like blaming the person who pulls the final brick from an already unstable Jenga tower. While t...
16 Maj 9min
SH277: You are entering water with known problems, and don't kid yourself that it's any different.
This episode explores why people often go diving even when something feels “off,” and how risk usually starts before anyone gets in the water. It explains that danger doesn’t come from one big mistake...
9 Maj 11min
