Quello che ancora non sappiamo.

Questions the network can answer with instruments already running.

1. Q01AttivoImmersioni e benessereOrizzonte 2026–2027

   What is the dose?

   Blue-space research shows restoration rises with contact, but nobody has described a dose-response curve for diving. How many dives, over how many weeks, before a change in perceived stress holds a month later?

   Cosa serve
   Repeated FP20 measurement across a dive season, minimum 300 divers, three climates.

   Being answered by the network now — the FP20 instrument →

2. Q02AttivoSicurezza e menteOrizzonte 2026–2027

   Does instructor wellbeing change student safety?

   Pillar 3 assumes it does. The literature on diving is almost silent on the people who teach it: burnout, seasonal load, sleep and decision quality on the boat.

   Cosa serve
   Cohort of instructors across Founding Centers, wellbeing and incident–near-miss reporting paired.

   Being answered by the network now — the center Quick Scan →

3. Q03AttivoSicurezza e menteOrizzonte 2026–2027

   Can a wellbeing signal be caught before it becomes an incident?

   Centers already log a green–amber–red check on each staff member before the day starts. The question is whether an amber, recorded early and acted on, precedes fewer near-misses than an amber recorded late — and whether the signal survives contact with a busy season.

   Cosa serve
   Two seasons of paired amber logs and near-miss reports across at least twenty centers, analysed blind.

   Being answered by the network now — the staff amber signal →

Questions that need designed studies and external partners.

1. Q04In progettazioneRespiro e fisiologiaOrizzonte 2027–2029

   Which mechanism carries the effect — breath, buoyancy, or silence?

   Slow continuous breathing, weightlessness and sensory reduction all plausibly drive the calm divers report. They have never been separated experimentally.

   Cosa serve
   Controlled comparison: confined-water sessions isolating each condition, HRV plus FP20.

2. Q05ApriConsapevolezza in acquaOrizzonte 2027–2029

   Does the practice transfer to land?

   «Beyond» is the fourth phase of the practice arc and the least evidenced. If presence trained underwater does not survive the drive home, the claim is a holiday effect.

   Cosa serve
   Twelve-month follow-up of MD-1 graduates against matched divers with no mindful training.

3. Q06ApriConnessione con l'oceanoOrizzonte 2027–2029

   Does mindful attention underwater change what divers do above it?

   Diving experience predicts pro-environmental attitude, but attitude is cheap. We want measured behaviour: contact with the reef, gear choices, local stewardship over two seasons.

   Cosa serve
   Behavioural observation at partner sites, paired with the Atlas practice notes.

4. Q07ApriImmersioni e benessereOrizzonte 2027–2029

   Who does this not work for?

   Almost every published sample is made of people who already dive and already liked it. The anxious first-timer, the diver returning after an incident and the person who finds the mask intolerable are absent from the literature — and they are the people a standard most needs to protect.

   Cosa serve
   Prospective cohort recruited at the point of first try-dive, including everyone who stops.

5. Q08ApriSpazio bluOrizzonte 2027–2029

   How much of the effect is the water, and how much is the cold?

   Cold-water immersion has its own literature and its own claimed effects. Diving research rarely reports temperature at all, so warm-reef and cold-quarry findings are pooled as if they were one exposure.

   Cosa serve
   Temperature-stratified analysis across the network, with thermal comfort recorded alongside FP20.

Questions that need a field, not a study.

1. Q09ApriFondamentiOrizzonte 2029+

   Are we measuring the right thing?

   Stress scales and mindfulness inventories were built on land, for populations sitting still. Whether they capture what happens to a person forty minutes into a dive is an open psychometric question, not a settled one.

   Cosa serve
   Validation programme for the FP20 in aquatic settings, with invariance testing across languages and cultures.

2. Q10ApriImmersione terapeuticaOrizzonte 2029+

   Where is the line between practice and therapy?

   Therapeutic diving programmes report reductions in trauma symptoms. Mindful Diving is not therapy and never will be. The Institute wants the boundary drawn by evidence, not by marketing.

   Cosa serve
   Joint protocol with dive medicine and clinical psychology partners; referral pathways defined first.