This talk focuses on how to manage diving-related risks. We will see that overlearning basic skills mitigates the impact of stress, and we will learn correct team-management procedures. Analytical tools like Fault Tree Analysis will be used to identify the root causes of diving incidents. Finally, we will understand how to develop safe and proficient diving plans.
We will investigate sources of errors, human factors and their impact on safety, the importance of good situational awareness, what characteristics make a good dive leader, how we should learn essential diving skills, what kind of stress, both physical and psychological, affects our performance, and what specific hazards derive from the different diving environments and the effect of diving on human physiology.
The presentation is based on my book “Risk Management for Diving Operations,” which is already used as a textbook for the training of the Alvin submersible pilots and the professional divers of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and by the University of Helsinki (Finland) diving program.
