Yes, he is clearly using sarcasm to illustrate the difference between correlation and causation and the faulty logic that can result when the two get confused.
Such as: The vast majority of divers who die in diving accidents have at least one dive certification - therefore dive certifications cause diving deaths and should be eliminated.
That might be true for PADI on line learning certs, but in all other cases eliminating training and certification will obviously not reduce diving accidents.
In the same vein, a large number of cave diver use a long hose, and similarly a loarge number of cave divers who died had one, but that very strong correlation still has no relationship to the causes of the accidents. The shop owner in question just demonstrated poor word choice with "wrapped around their necks" unintentionally implying strangulation or entanglement as a cause of accidents and/or safety concern.
Such as: The vast majority of divers who die in diving accidents have at least one dive certification - therefore dive certifications cause diving deaths and should be eliminated.
That might be true for PADI on line learning certs, but in all other cases eliminating training and certification will obviously not reduce diving accidents.
In the same vein, a large number of cave diver use a long hose, and similarly a loarge number of cave divers who died had one, but that very strong correlation still has no relationship to the causes of the accidents. The shop owner in question just demonstrated poor word choice with "wrapped around their necks" unintentionally implying strangulation or entanglement as a cause of accidents and/or safety concern.