Task Loading

[Dominick Gheesling]

Thinking about Task Loading today.

Fairly certain that Task Loading is likely a component in all accidents.

What do you do when you realize you are task loaded, honestly?

What is the minimum awareness that I owe to the team regardless of my task and how does this effect the tasks I choose to perform for the team?

How do you avoid Task Loading?

Do you talk about the potentiality for Task Loading in pre-dive brief?

Do you talk about the ramifications of task loading during the post-dive debrief?

Just wondering aloud.

Dominick

[Jack Hammer]

Practice basic skills so they dont weight one down with task loading

[Dsix36]

Buoyancy is always first, well right after breathing of course.

[FW]

One big problem is not admitting you are getting overloaded. First you have to admit it to yourself, then it is only fair to let your buddies know. It is easy for an experienced buddy to cause a less experienced buddy to get overloaded. That can easily lead to an unsafe situation. I have called dives because the plan was too ambitious. I have also been with a buddy that was getting overloaded. When my buddy called the dive, I didn't argue, I just followed him out.

[FW]

Do you talk about the potentiality for Task Loading in pre-dive brief?

Do you talk about the ramifications of task loading during the post-dive debrief?

Yes to both!

[FW]

PS Dominic, don't yell

That huge type is annoying.

[Dominick Gheesling]

PS Dominic, don't yell

That huge type is annoying.

Sorry about that. I was trying to make it easier for the elderly to read.

[tbone1004]

I was taught, and continue to teach "slow and relaxed with good technique, as long as you are breathing then everything else is gravy". This gets me to slow down in all aspects of life. I know when the world starts speeding up and I know that I can't keep up with it, so I need it to slow down. We try to teach the students that as well. You have to learn for yourself when the world starts moving faster and faster and how to slow it down.

[FW]

Sorry about that. I was trying to make it easier for the elderly to read.

Careful there buddy

[Kelly Jessop]

Practice basic skills so they dont weight one down with task loading

Good comment. When as task becomes an "over learned" task, then you don't need the mental processing for the other tasks, which can lead to task loading. When someone is task loaded, their breathing will get more shallow and CO2 levels climb with this hypercapnia,which makes the task loading grow larger, which can facilitate anxiety and panic.