How much of a factor is age in scuba deaths

[chillyinCanada]

Not sure this is actually true. According to Wikipedia, your chances of dying per dive are about 100 times greater than your chances of dying per drive. (Not sure how they did the math, exactly.) Scuba diving fatalities - Wikipedia Depending on which study you look at, I think, overall, though, your chances of dying in a car are (very roughly) about the same as dying scuba diving. (You drive a lot more than you dive.)

Interesting chart here, with a substantially higher chance of dying in a car than diving: Your Chances of Dying There is a sobering note down at the bottom about your chances of dying just getting larger as you get older. Ugh.

Not at 85

 

[Bob DBF]

Interesting chart here, with a substantially higher chance of dying in a car than diving: Your Chances of Dying There is a sobering note down at the bottom about your chances of dying just getting larger as you get older. Ugh.

Yeah, that's the one that gets everybody. No one gets out alive!

As for all the statistics about diving, people pick out the ones that will support their point of view, but no one knows how many divers are active, how many dives are being made, how many hours underwater, age of the divers, and so on. The agencies, if they share and if they exist anymore, could come up with a number of certified divers but what does that tell you about the actual diving being done now? BSAC and DAN can do a decent job of tracking their members, however I believe there are a lot of divers that are outside both groups.



Bob
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the future is uncertain, and the end is always near. Jim Morrison

 

[Storker]

No one gets out alive!

Get your quotes right. It's "no one here gets out alive"

 

[Miyaru]

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As for all the statistics about diving, people pick out the ones that will support their point of view
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True. I'd rather die in a cave than in a car. But then again, I will also be the one who doesn't care anymore.
The added value of my death-while-diving is that it will hopefully start a thread with lots of speculation, finger pointing, a bit of agency bashing and finally a report that concludes my ego didn't fit through a restriction on the way out.

I definitely won't have that after a traffic fatality.

Mother Nature will take you out of the equation when your number is up. Regardless of any statistics.

 

[Storker]

I'd rather die in a cave than in a car.

Considering that dying in a cave probably would be rather slow (drowning), while dying in a car probably would be rather fast, allow me to disagree.

 

[agilis]

I wonder how fatality rates for elderly men who die while (or shortly after) having sex compare to fatality rates for the same demographic who die while diving. It's kind of a double whammy for those of us who still greatly enjoy both, sometimes on the same day.

 

[ibj40]

Considering that dying in a cave probably would be rather slow (drowning), while dying in a car probably would be rather fast, allow me to disagree.

I'd still rather die mowing my lawn.

 

[Storker]

I'd still rather die mowing my lawn.

Can't argue that

 

[chillyinCanada]

I'd still rather die mowing my lawn.

That's how my uncle died. Fortunately for him, it was very fast.

 

[Chidiver1]

I wonder how fatality rates for elderly men who die while (or shortly after) having sex compare to fatality rates for the same demographic who die while diving. It's kind of a double whammy for those of us who still greatly enjoy both, sometimes on the same day.

dream is to go out doing both at the same time.