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
SH278: Be Curious, Not Judgemental
This episode looks at how quick judgement, especially online, can block learning and make diving less safe. Using a real example of an adaptive scuba training video that received harsh criticism, it e...
13 Maj 6min
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
SH276: If there are no silver bullets, build capacity to fail safely
This episode explores what real safety improvement in diving could look like if we stop copying other industries and start designing for the reality of diving itself. It explains that diving is commer...
6 Maj 14min
SH275: The death of a child in diver training. There are no ‘silver bullet’ solutions
This episode looks at the tragic death of 12-year-old D.H. during a scuba training dive and explains it not as one person’s mistake, but as a failure of the whole system around her. Using court docume...
2 Maj 30min
SH274: When Do We Stop Asking “Why?”
This episode explores why asking “why did this happen?” after a diving accident is important — but not enough on its own. It explains that investigations often stop too early, not because everything i...
29 Apr 14min
SH273: What story gets told? What words are used? Who gets to the tell the multiple stories?
This episode looks at two very different ways of telling the same tragic story — the death of a 12-year-old girl during a scuba training dive in Texas — and why the way we tell these stories matters f...
25 Apr 9min
