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The social psychology of safe diving

The social psychology of safe diving

Why do divers make bad decisions when they know better?

As certified divers, we should already have a pretty good understanding of how to dive safely. But many of us have found ourselves in unsafe diving situations such as diving beyond our training or diving despite apprehension or discomfort. Many of these dangerous situations result from poor decisions made before a dive,but why do divers make bad decisions when we know better?

I have found myself in several unsafe situations while diving. Once a dive operator encouraged me to go on a dive that was deeper than I was trained to go. Another time one put together my equipment for me, and when I went to double-check it he told me not to bother, saying they had “been doing this for years”.

Many divers give in to this sort of pressure, but why does this happen despite all the training we’ve undergone?

Latest news on decompression illness

All you want to know about decompression illness

If you are a beginner then you will have problem to answer the following questions. However, this encourages you to continue your education and get this important knowledge by reading the attached articles related to the answers. Even though you are an experienced diver, it is often good to have a review and to see where you are to fine tune or learn again about decompression illness in scuba diving. Because diving safely is all about this topic (of course, air management and mix is the primary concern but we will send another questionnaire on that) we encourage all of you to master this topic.

Psychology in teaching scuba diving for a child-Part3

	Psychology for child in teaching scuba diving-Part 3/3
	Water is the expression of the unconscious, its own truth, place of the secret and unknown motivations… Water, original element, before the language, allows descending and reaching the things of the lower level, place of the founding images.

Psychology in teaching scuba diving for a child-Part2

	Psychology for child in teaching scuba diving-Part 2/3
	Being in water, it is to be a body aware of itself, it means aware of: - its envelope which defines an inside and an outside, - gravity which is not obvious any more here and must be tested in the inner side of the body (lung ballast), - a balance to be maintained around a centre of gravity that almost disappeared...

Psychology in teaching scuba diving for a child-Part1

Psychology for child in teaching scuba diving-Part 1/3

If there is one topic which is developed very little in the scuba diving instructors training it is for sure psychology. However, this parameter is undoubtedly one of the most important tribute to the success while training a beginner. This is even more critical when it is about child. This article tries to give funding elements allowing an approach of the child beyond any technical consideration.

Diving Accidents Requiring Recompression - Part4/4

	DIVING ACCIDENTS REQUIRING RECOMPRESSION - Part4/4
	Breathing air contaminated by exhaust fumes or other sources of carbon monoxide by accident. Carbon monoxide self-poisoning is also used as a suicide technique and chamber operators are likely to treat such cases, which are generally more severe than the CO poisoning which occasionally occurs in divers.

Diving Accidents Requiring Recompression - Part3/4

	DIVING ACCIDENTS REQUIRING RECOMPRESSION - Part3/4
	There are a number of manifestations of decompression illness which occur commonly and these are outlined below. They may occur alone or in combination. Occasionally, unusual cases occur and in such instances, the use of additional descriptive terms may be required.

Diving Accidents Requiring Recompression - Part2/4

	DIVING ACCIDENTS REQUIRING RECOMPRESSION - Part2/4
	Rather than imposing this somewhat artificial classification on the decompression disorders, a better understanding of the natural syndromes is likely to result if a descriptive system is used. To simplify what could otherwise end up as a bewildering collection of terms, the symptoms and signs of decompression illness will be discussed using evolution and manifestation terms.

Diving Accidents Requiring Recompression - Part1/4

	DIVING ACCIDENTS REQUIRING RECOMPRESSION - Part1/4
	By including the evolution and manifestation terms in the phrase 'decompression illness', a highly flexible diagnostic label can be applied to any case.

Teenager Scuba Diving accident and survival-Part2

	Teenager Scuba Diving accident and survival-Part2
	Hi everybody. My name is Antony, 15 years old, and I am happy today to be alive after my diving accident last year so that I can tell you what happened during this special day on Tuesday 17^th of August, 2010. Here is below the part 2 of my incredible story.

Teenager Scuba Diving accident and survival

	Teenager Scuba Diving accident and survival
	Hi everybody. My name is Antony, 15 years old, and I am happy today to be alive after my diving accident last year so that I can tell you what happened during this special day on Tuesday 17^th of August, 2010. I sincerely hope my survival will help other people, diver or non-diver, to prevent such accident from happening again with probably fatal issue.

Dives at Phuket

	Scuba Diving at Phuket in July
	I wanted to try diving from Phuket during this season. In July this is considered as low season because the risk of strong showers is big so that it makes the visibility lower than usual. Actually I have been told that you cannot expect good visibility in Thailand in general. At best in some area you will get 15 meters.