Efficiency at Sorting Cards in Air and a 20 Per Cent Oxygen-Helium Mixture at Depths Down to 100 Feet and in Enriched Air
- 1 January 1967
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Informa UK Limited in Ergonomics
- Vol. 10 (1), 53-62
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00140136708930839
Abstract
Eighty men sorted packs of cards twice, once at the surface, and once at a depth of 33 or 100 ft (2 ats or 4 ats abs) or at the surface, breathing the equivalent partial pressure of oxygen at these depths. The gases breathed were air and 20 per cent oxygen in helium. Significantly more errors were made at a depth of 100 ft in air than at the surface in air (p p < 0·05). There was also a carry over of the rate of work from the first trial to the second (p < 0·05). A similar carry-over was found in a previous experiment, but in this the men normally worked more slowly in proportion to the depth. The increased rate of work reported here may be attributed to an increase in the level of arousal at depth.Keywords
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