Human in the System Consulting Under Pressure: Diving Deeper with Factors

If you’re a serious diver you need this book. Anything but the most casual of divers can learn a lot. Well worth the money.

Great book! Essential for extended range and exploration divers of all disciplines.

As the headline goes, the most important book a scuba diver can read AFTER certification. I say this as a non-diver will not understand much of the terms, terminology, and environments presented. I myself am a recreational, and technical, dive instructor. I've been diving since the early 2000's, and have had my fair share of things come up over the years. Most of the time, the incidents simply happen, and they are forgotten till they come up again. Very few people are able to learn unless posting on social media.What Gareth has been able to achieve (quite successfully), is capture the mindset to go along with factors that can contribute to the reasons why we do what we do. Mistakes that we may make be it complacency, or just simply human error. The way the book was written allows a person to put themselves in the BCD (pun intended) of the diver, and get the chance to learn as things happened. This information comes from top instructors around the world sharing their story. That in itself is value as the stories are in a single place, and eloquently dissected for us to learn and obtain knowledge to prevent from being in the same scenario.Bottom Line: The information, the stories, the lessons to learn, understanding of human factors and behaviors, and in a short format--- You must read/learn for yourself. My takeaway will be different than yours, but promise you will definitely get more than you bargained for.

Das Buch hat für mich einen sehr akademisch, theoretischen Ansatz, macht dem Leser allerdings bewusst, von welchen Einflussfaktoren - oft unbemerkt - er umgeben ist. Das eindrücklichste sind jedoch die sog 'case studies', welche der Autor zur Unterstützung seiner Thesen einbringt. Beim Lesen dieser kann sich der Leser selber fragen: wie hätte ich es in dieser Situation gemacht?

Can’t recommend this high enough, i read it front to back in two sittings and will be using it as a reference tool both for diving and work, definitely on my recommend reading list