In this episode of The Dive Locker Podcast you’ll learn from Gareth Lock about how mistakes in diving are usually a result of many small problems along the way.

Welcome To The Show!

Welcome to The Dive Locker Podcast, the podcast for dive professionals where we bring you the latest in diving industry resources that make you excellent at teaching techniques, risk management and dive business.

Hey everyone welcome to the show it’s great to be with you today. To err is human. Yep we make mistakes. But did you know that a mistake or an error usually is a multi faceted event that could have been hours, weeks or even years in the making. Hard to believe huh, but it’s true.

Gareth Lock

Today’s guest is Gareth Lock with his company The Human Diver. Gareth has brought the field of human factors study to the diving industry.

Gareth Lock is a retired Royal Air Force senior officer Navigator of 25 years, who was both a senior supervisor and a tactical flight instructor on an operational C-130 flying squadron. He has a MSc in Aerospace Systems from Kingston University and spent his last 5 years in the RAF as a Requirements Manager for Defensive Aids Systems working across all levels of industry, research and the military from front-line user to very senior officers, both in the UK and in the US, often at highly classified levels.

Gareth is an Open Circuit advanced trimix diver (Technical Diver Level 2 with Global Underwater Explorers) and normoxic trimix CCR diver (JJ-CCR with TDI) with around 800 dives over 12 years of diving. He is also an accomplished underwater photographer with a deep interest in cold, green water wreck diving.

Shortly after leaving the RAF in 2014, he delivered eight months of Well Operations Crew Resource Management (WOCRM) training and coaching to oil workers in an offshore environment, the results of which were presented by Gareth and Phil Smith (Managing Director of Critical Team Performance) at the oil and gas industry’s international (IADC Human Factors) conference in Houston. In June 2015, Gareth completed the TOP-SET three-day Senior Investigator root cause analysis course, considered an industry standard in Oil & Gas, heavy industry, and rail incident and accident investigation.

In 2012, Gareth started his PhD, examining the role of human factors in scuba diving incidents. He is published in a number of magazines and journals, has presented at nine international diving conferences on Human Factors in diving, and manages the Diving Incident and Safety Management System incident database.

He has recently been appointed Global Underwater Explorer’s Director for Risk Management, responsible for developing the performance of instructors and instructor trainers and building a Just Culture within this learning-cultured organization. And he just released his first documentary called “If Only”. This documentary follows a technical diver who died from not having his oxygen bottle turned on in his rebreather. But, it’s not about that one singular action that caused his death, in fact there were a variety of errors along the way that contributed to his not doing that one protocol. It is an epic documentary, so we are going to talk with Gareth about that.

Items In This Episode

• “If Only” Documentary
• The Human Diver Website
• Checklists in Diving

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