Most diving incidents aren't caused by bad divers. They're caused by the systems, cultures, and conditions that surround ordinary divers making reasonable decisions.
You already know this.
The question is what you do with it.
HF in Diving Conference 2026.
The only residential event in diving that turns human factors from a concept you understand into a skill you use.
Every year, the diving world produces incident reports that end in the same two words: human error. Every year, experienced divers read those reports, feel something is wrong with that conclusion, and have no language to say why. This conference is for those divers.
Over six days on the Adriatic island of Vis, you will work through the theory in the morning, test it in structured scenarios, and dive the wrecks and reefs in the afternoon with a Human Diver instructor alongside you. The learning does not stay in the classroom. It moves into your planning, your briefings, your decisions underwater, and your debriefs when you surface.
This is The Human Diver's tenth year. It is the first residential conference. There are thirty places.
30 places. Once they are gone, there is no waitlist option.
If you are considering it, the time to commit is now. Bookings close 18 May 2026.
Educational
World-class speakers from diving, aviation, healthcare, and military operations. Presentations cover the full spectrum: decision-making under pressure, trauma processing, social media and blame culture, team dynamics, learning from fatalities, and the psychology of silence in dive teams. You will have access to all recordings after the event.
Practical
The HFiD: Applied Skills and LFEO: Applied Skills classes are the core of the event. These are not lectures. They are structured activities using The Human Diver's Interpersonal Skills LAB, where teams operate under realistic pressure, fail in a psychologically safe environment, debrief honestly, and improve. Then they go diving. The two halves of each day are designed to reinforce each other.
Transformative
Divers who have completed HFiD: Applied Skills describe a consistent before-and-after: they plan differently, brief differently, and respond to stress differently. The conference extends that experience over five days, on world-class dive sites, with a community of thirty people who share the same conviction that diving deserves better than 'human error' as its final word on tragedy.
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Who...
You do not need a specific qualification level to attend. Recreational, technical, and CCR divers are all catered for in the water. What qualifies you is not your certification card. It is how you think.
This conference is for you if you have ever read an incident report and thought the conclusion missed something. If you have ever sat in a briefing and thought it was theatre. If you have had a difficult dive, or watched someone else have one, and felt that the debrief afterwards protected the wrong things. If you know, somewhere, that the way the diving world handles failure is costing lives — and you want to be part of changing it.
If that is you, you have found your people.
There are now only 18 places left
Conference Schedule
Sunday 31 May: Full day of presentations, opening session, and conference dinner.
Monday – Thursday: Morning HFiD or LFEO Applied Skills class (08:30–12:30), lunch, afternoon diving (up to two dives), evening presentation.
Friday 5 June: Free diving day. Conference dinner in the evening with an after-dinner presentation on the Tulsamerican crash — a B-24 bomber that went down near Vis in 1944, found by a local diver in 2010, and the human factors story of recovering its crew.
We'll be recording all the presentations because we know you won't want to miss any of the topics. We also know that these presentations are packed with valuable information so you'll want to revisit again and again.
How...
...do I get access to the conference?
Tickets are now on sale. We have limited the number of people who can attend the live event to 300 which includes speakers and supporting staff. This is primarily so you have a great social experience as well as an awesome learning experience.
- Live viewing only. This will be priced at $80 and will allow you access to all of the presentations. The way LexGo is set up is that you can move around the conference rooms as you want to. You can't be in two places at once though ;)
Price $80. - Live viewing plus recordings. This gives you the same access as above, plus you get a copy of all of the presentations that will then be accessible after the event and you'll have access to these videos for 9 months after the conference.
Price $150. - Recording-only option. We know that not everyone can make the conference live so we are now offering a recording-only option which also includes the proceedings.
Price $120 - VIP Tickets. This includes live and recorded access, along with access to digital training materials from the online aspects of the blended learning programme and new essentials class which will be released in July 2021. Most importantly, you will get a one-hour coaching session with me or one of The Human Diver instructors to talk about how to practically implement aspects of HF in your diving. There are only 30 of these tickets available.
Price $250.
What...
The 2021 Human Factors in Diving Conference is the focal point for thinking about and applying human factors knowledge, skills. and practice to diving. Diving that ranges from recreational, technical, cave, CCR, public safety diving, military diving, scientific diving and commercial diving.
All you will need to attend the conference is an internet connection and a device which allows audio and video. LexGo runs from inside a browser so no special software is needed.
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