BDSC
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It's my humble opinion that this approaches %100 towards diver error especially if you include health issues. No single gear failure should cause a fatality... ever.
I agree with Pete on this. I don't think any gear failure should cause a fatailty. But I would be interested in knowing some thing like, say a diver not watching their air and running out and that causing a fatality, vs some person having a heart attack while diving. While it would go down as a diving fatality, would the person just as likely have had a heart attack walking the dog that day instead? From what I read here on SB, it seems the diving population is getting older and older and perhaps in the future there would be an increase is diving fatalities but due so because of an increased risk of heart attack in an older diving population.