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Latest DAN Study Quantifies The Risks Of Mini Lobster Season Diving
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Stupid chart.. you chance of dying is 10 times higher in mini-season....LOL.. maybe the divers who dive on mini-season are 10 X more likely to die than the average person who dives (or hunts) - but I really doubt my chance of dying goes up 10 fold, during the special 2 day period.
Mini-season brings out all the clowns and people who have not dove all year and now want to dive...It is a markedy different population who participates in mini-season.
Mini-season brings out all the clowns and people who have not dove all year and now want to dive...It is a markedy different population who participates in mini-season.
Not to be crass, but if there are deaths during mini-season, every year, in Florida, in California, year in, year out... how did DAN's research determine that the incidence of deaths was "unexpectedly high" during lobster season?
I hear that DAN's next study is going to reveal an unexpectedly high incidence of bears s***ing in the woods.
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Another round of made up stastics. They should put as much energy into finding how many divers are active and how many dives they make so they can actually give a real percentage of your real chance of dying while diving, then the increased risk during mini lobster season could be more accurate.
Under Hunting they manage to include Abalone diving, which is done freediving. I believe it has been over a decade since diving SCUBA for Abalone in SoCal was outlawed.
"Diving Death Row" point out that Ca and Fla have 62% of SCUBA fatalities. Perhaps 62% of US diving goes on there, I don't know and DAN is not telling because it would lessen the impact of the "statistic".
There are a lot of good reasons to discuss the dangers of hunting while diving, but using very questionable stastics to scare divers is not helping the discussion. Of course if divers scare easy it might work.
Bob
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Under Hunting they manage to include Abalone diving, which is done freediving. I believe it has been over a decade since diving SCUBA for Abalone in SoCal was outlawed.
"Diving Death Row" point out that Ca and Fla have 62% of SCUBA fatalities. Perhaps 62% of US diving goes on there, I don't know and DAN is not telling because it would lessen the impact of the "statistic".
There are a lot of good reasons to discuss the dangers of hunting while diving, but using very questionable stastics to scare divers is not helping the discussion. Of course if divers scare easy it might work.
Bob
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I may be old, but I'm not dead yet.
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