The Human Diver Releases New Human Factors in Diving Course

PRESS RELEASE

The Human Diver (www.thehumandiver.com) returns with HFiD:Essentials (2025), the third evolution of its award-winning course on teamwork, leadership, communication, situation awareness, and decision-making for divers and instructors. This updated release, which goes live on 20 July, goes deeper into the core cognitive and social dynamics that underpin high-performance diving, and what divers and diving instructors can do to be better than yesterday in terms of performance and safety.

Questions you often hear. 

• Why do experienced divers and dive teams still make simple mistakes? 
• Why do leaders sometimes go unheard? 
• Why do students or clients have a challenge speaking up?
• How can technical divers sharpen their edge without adding more kit?
• How do we really learn when something goes wrong on a dive, to us, or to someone else?

Essentials (2025) offers answers by bringing proven tools from mission-critical domains like aerospace, surgery, and special operations into diving. The focus: improving the situation awareness, decision-making, communication, and team dynamics that influence every dive, and being aware of what makes it easier to do the right thing, and harder to do the wrong thing.

The course includes modules on:

• How perception and bias shape dive decisions so we can create better and safer outcomes.
• How to create psychological safety in high-stakes dives
• Developing your debriefing skills so they are a habit, not an afterthought
• Spotting performance-influencing factors before they trigger an error

Gareth Lock and the team at The Human Diver have built this course to be practical, honest, and reflective. They’ve taken the lessons learned from the last two versions and made it even better. The lessons are scenario-based, with real-world diving case studies for each topic and tools that fit into any pre-dive briefing, in-water scenario, or post-dive review. They’ve also used some new technology that will allow languages other than English to be deployed more quickly, thereby increasing the safety of divers around the globe, not just those who speak or read English.

They’ve provided three ways to start the class; a core materials version, one where you can get a rebate and a discount if you complete the course within one month, and the exclusive option where you get a copy of Under Pressure, Human Diver Wetnotes with custom printed inserts, and some other goodies.

If you want to be more aware, improve your diving performance and safety, and want to learn from the experts in the field, this course is for you.

More at: thehumandiver.com/essentials-2025