Shock mitigation seat and shock monitoring system

A shock mitigation seat including a plurality of individual shock absorbing members resilient to compression from a shock impact, the plurality of individual shock absorbing members have upper and lower platforms integrally formed with a remainder of each respective individual shock absorbing member of the plurality of individual shock absorbing members, wherein prior to the compression adjacent ones of the upper platforms abut one another and adjacent ones of the lower platforms abut one another such that at a certain stage of the compression at least one of the plurality of individual shock absorbing members resiliently deforms sufficiently that its remainder comes into contact with the remainder of one or more laterally adjacent other individual ones of the plurality of individual shock absorbing members which thereby increases resistance to further compression, wherein the at least one of the plurality of individual shock absorbing members is in a form of an annulus of resilient material having inner and outer surfaces concentric about an axis configured normal to the compression.