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SH223: The Effect of your Environment on your Decision Making: Performance Shaping Factors in Diving

SH223: The Effect of your Environment on your Decision Making: Performance Shaping Factors in Diving

Update: 2025-11-05
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In this episode, we dive into the impact of human factors on decision-making in diving, focusing on how environmental elements like fatigue and cold temperatures can shape performance. We explore how jet lag from travel affects cognitive ability and the strategies to mitigate its effects, as well as how cold water impacts dexterity, buoyancy, and mental processing. With insights into the physiological and mental challenges these conditions create, we discuss practical steps to reduce their impact and emphasize the importance of awareness in making better, safer decisions underwater.


Original blog: https://www.thehumandiver.com/blog/the-effect-of-your-environment-on-your-decision-making-performance-shaping-factors-in-diving


 


Links: Diver performance and the effects of cold: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/001872086801000501


 


Tags:  English, Guy Shockey, Performance Shaping Factors

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SH223: The Effect of your Environment on your Decision Making: Performance Shaping Factors in Diving

SH223: The Effect of your Environment on your Decision Making: Performance Shaping Factors in Diving

Gareth Lock at The Human Diver