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While panic and anxiety are still common among divers, regardless of their age or gender or certification or experience or recency of diving, it is rarely the cause of scuba deaths according to the fatality data analysed by Diver Alert Network (n=947). As I prepare my talks for OurWorldUnderwater in Chicago next month, I am interested in collecting more recent personal experiences of how divers have handled dive panic or anxiety since I last conducted online surveys ten years ago.
According to Dan Orr, a trigger event is the earliest identifiable root cause that transforms an unremarkable dive into an emergency. A harmful action or reaction is a root cause that exacerbates the situation. An incapacitating injury is an action that caused death or rendered an incapacitated diver susceptible to drowning.
So, how have you as a diver handled the stress of a trigger event(s) and avoided a harmful action or reaction and thus avoided an incapacitating injury or death?
According to Dan Orr, a trigger event is the earliest identifiable root cause that transforms an unremarkable dive into an emergency. A harmful action or reaction is a root cause that exacerbates the situation. An incapacitating injury is an action that caused death or rendered an incapacitated diver susceptible to drowning.
So, how have you as a diver handled the stress of a trigger event(s) and avoided a harmful action or reaction and thus avoided an incapacitating injury or death?