Re: Scuba (was FITNESS)

From: Lee Daniel Crocker (lee@piclab.com)
Date: Mon Apr 14 2003 - 18:18:12 MDT

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    > (natashavita@earthlink.net <natashavita@earthlink.net>):
    >
    > Scuba diving, when following the rules and diving with a buddy,
    > is not a very dangerous sport.

    That was not my impression, but I went and looked up some stats.
    Sure enough, it is indeed safer than skydiving: about 1 fatality
    in every 200,000 dives versus 1 in 65,000 jumps. I would have
    guessed the other way around. 

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