The Scuba death rate...

[fisherdvm]

What we really need to know is how many tanks were filled each year, that would give us a rather good, though abstrated, value for diving effort each year.

How do we sort out which were used by divers, and which were used to refill paint ball guns??

They have some cool 38 cal, 45 cal, and 50 cal pellet guns that you refill with a scuba tank that can down a deer!! Look up quackenbush air guns.

 

[MikeFerrara]

What we really need to know is how many tanks were filled each year, that would give us a rather good, though abstrated, value for diving effort each year.

Maybe, but I see enough in the water that I don't need to calculate how dangerous "bad" is because I can see that it's bad even if it isn't always dangerous. LOL

 

[knotical]

there is an old list from Failure Analysis Inc., which I googled but could not find

Found it at:
http://www.magma.ca/~ocbc/comparat.html

fatalities per million hrs
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Skydiving 128.71
General (private) Aviation 15.58
On-road Motorcycling 8.80
Scuba Diving 1.98
Living (all causes of death) 1.53
Swimming 1.07
Snowmobiling .88
Passenger cars .47
Water skiing .28
Bicycling .26
Flying (scheduled domestic airlines) .15
Hunting .08
Cosmic Radiation from transcontinental flights .035
Home Living (active) .027
Traveling in a School Bus .022
Passenger Car Post-collision fire .017
Home Living, active & passive (sleeping) .014
Residential Fire .003

Compiled by Failure Analysis Associates, Inc. (Design News, 10-4-93)

 

[H2Andy]

dang, i do four out of the five top ways to buy it

Skydiving 128.71
General (private) Aviation 15.58
On-road Motorcycling 8.80
Scuba Diving 1.98
Living (all causes of death) 1.53

 

[Cacia]

you livin' on the edge, Andy.

wow...skydiving is more dangerous than I thought.

 

[joh]

I am trying to prove to a friend that diving is less dangerous than skiiing, on average, I am sure there are stats to prove it...

 

[H2Andy]

hmmm... good luck ... skiing doesn't even show up on the danger list