Diver Fatalities: How Good Divers Get into Bad Trouble (Dan Orr, M.S.) 

Should be mandatory viewing for every diver.....great video!

A must view and review for all divers

This is an excellent video and highlights key risks for divers. These data can and should be used to improve dive SOPs to help keep divers safer. As a pulmonologist, and diver, I thank you for your work!

Thank you, great Video. Most important informations.

Thank you

Do you have any statistics on the accident related to alcohol use the night before a dive since it seems to be a common practice in diving resorts.

Can we get this data updated?

During the video, you made a comment that accidents occur for some because they don’t have an established pre-dive ritual of checking equipment. You argued that divers should have a developed habit of checking equipment and preparing to dive. Then later, you showed data that people who dive a significant amount in a short period become complacent and accidents occur because they deviated from pre-dive checks. In aviation, we have a strict culture that teaches habit development is very dangerous as it’s linked as a significant contributor to accidents and fatalities. We should never do anything out of habit, and instead, used standardized checklists before every maintenance action or flight to ensure nothing is ever missed. The use of checklists reduced aviation accident rates dramatically in the early days, and they’re used because of this to date. As both an aviator and a professional diver, I’d argue we should not be teaching people to attempt to memorize dive plans or checks, nor to develop a pre-diver ritual or check based on habit. Instead, as an industry, we should have developed standardized checklists and enforced teaching divers to use them a long time ago.

Interesting talk with a lot of good point but some statistics are twisted is pretty bad. First, there is a peak in fatalities with divers certified for >10 years because this category sums up all the years starting from 11 up to 50 or 60 years, while the other categories only encompass one year each (except 6-10 years). Second, there is a peak in accidents with divers who do >300 dives a year simply because they dive more, just as someone driving 100,000 km a year is more likely to have an accident as someone driving 5,000 km each year. Their exposure to risk is simply much bigger. Last but not least I need to point out that BMI is a pretty poor measurement when assessing if someone is overweight. I for that matter would not classify Phil Heath as obese, but the BMI would. I agree, however, that especially the Americans have a big problem with obesity and that it poses a risk to diving in many ways. I am missing some words on smoking as risk factor concerning e.g. AGE, DCS, general fitness etc... Regards from Germany

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thank you for knowledge. the problem is simple: money. why all courses are so easy like padi? they want earn easy money. courses such are too easy, "divers" not prepared for safe diving