Technical diver Gareth Lock focuses his attention on how human factors affect sport diving accidents. He has created an invaluable resource for CCR Divers with countless contributions to understanding human error in safety. Lock serves in the Royal Ari Force and often correlates his experience as a tactical flight instructor to application in diving. His company Cognitas Incident Management and Research also manages the Diving Incident Safety Management System (DISMS) which is an open, transparent, detailed, and importantly, confidential reporting system for sport divers irrespective of their preferred training agency or method of diving. Ultimately, the idea is to improve diver and diving safety through 2 main strands of work; detailed reporting of the incident to allow other divers to “learn from others’ incidents” and secondly, collection of statistics from a wide diving community unconcerned with agency affiliation or bias.
Locke offers very cogent examination of the recently released Coroner’s Report on Phil Gray’s death on a CCR. His article offers excellent links to further articles, resources and exercises that help us better understanding how the human machine interface operates in rebreather diving. Read the article here.
