May 2, 2024 / Tim Andro

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All of us at NePSD are excited to tell you about a great course by The Human Diver. The “Level 0: Essentials of Human Factors in Diving” online course that will give you an incredible opportunity to take a deep dive into safety and decision-making. As an affiliate, this is something I’m really passionate to share with you, whether you’re an experienced diver looking to enhance your skills or someone just starting their dive training!

Developed by Gareth Lock, founder of The Human Diver, this course provides a comprehensive look into the non-technical skills essential for safer diving.

This course covers:

  • Unique Focus: Most courses focus on equipment and techniques, but this course is dedicated to the human factors in diving – the human element!
  • Enhanced Safety: Giving you a better understanding of decision-making, communication, and situational awareness to make every dive safer and more enjoyable for everyone!
  • Comprehensive Training: With an integrated approach to diving that goes beyond just equipment and techniques, you’ll soon understand the intricacies of decision-making, communication, and situational awareness beneath the waves.

The course aims to make it easier for divers to do the right thing whilst making it harder to make mistakes while managing uncertainty and risk.

Why should you invest in non-technical skills training for diving? 

The answer is simple – it can save lives! 

Dive accidents often involve human error, and by developing our non-technical skills, such as communication, decision-making, and situational awareness, we can significantly reduce the risk of mishaps underwater.

Gareth Lock, course instructor and founder, has extensive experience in diving, having served in the Royal Air Force. He has dedicated his career to understanding human factors in diving. His mission is to enhance diving skills through specific training that goes beyond the traditional technical aspects and focuses on the crucial human element.

Read more about Gareth here: https://www.thehumandiver.com/work-with-gareth 

To learn more about the “Level 0: Essentials of Human Factors in Diving” course click on the link: https://www.thehumandiver.com/a/35547/878YrTrL

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About The Author

Tim is the founder, owner, and head certifying instructor of Northeast Public Safety Divers. Tim began diving in 2005 and became in SDI and ERDI instructor in 2015. Over the course of his extensive dive career, Tim has accrued over 100 individual dive certifications and logged over 4,000 dives to depths over 200'. Tim is also an active firefighter (since 1999) and public safety diver on the Mahwah Fire and Rescue Co #1 Dive Rescue team, where he is also the Coordinator of that team since 2015. In his position as coordinator, Tim has commanded dive operations for the FBI, US Coast Guard, NY & NJ Port Authority Police, Royal Canadian Mounted Police, and numerous other smaller jurisdictions. His expertise is widely recognized in the public safety dive community where he has been a speaker at numerous dive conferences and has received the ERDI "Outstanding Instructor Award" for 2016, 2017, and 2018.
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