Solo Diver Accident Statistics

[DeepBound]

Does anyone have any stats on percentage of diver deaths that were solo divers? I mean intentionally solo, not lost from their buddy?

 

[Timeliner]

We all die alone

 

[Cacia]

I bet it is very low. most who solo pick more favorable conditions, etc. (as long as you don't count accidental solo dives) hmmm, I keep checking back to see if someone has these stats.

 

[Jim Lapenta]

It depends on the type of solo diving. If you are talking recreational I would imagine it's very low. If you are talking deep tech or very deep wreck diving ala "Fatal Depth, or like
"Last Dive" type stuff then it's a different ballgame. But God! I really want to play! And aren't favorable conditions a relative term?

 

[Timeliner]

But God! I really want to play! And aren't favorable conditions a relative term?

You bet they are

 

[ArcticDiver]

Since there is no mandatory incident or accident reporting in the recreational dive industry there are no demonstrably accurate statistics. There are some pretty good estimates like DAN uses. But no one, publicly at any rate, has a provably accurate incident/accident data base.

But, if a person is to use the DAN statistics as anywhere close to representative of the whole one would have to say that solo diving is no more dangerous than any other kind of diving and may even be safer. Even so, with 89 deaths(if memory serves) the number of deaths in scuba is so small compared to the probable total number of dives as to be inconsequential from a mathematical viewpoint.

Maybe some day we will have reliable, accurate statistics. Until then you pays your money and you take your chances. Or, if you have a specialized product or training to sell you promote the fear and the customer pays the money.