Fatality and accident stats, old v. new

[ottomobile]

I was curious.
In short does any one have any idea on scuba fatalities (or injuries) from several decades ago verses now?

Besides I would think there are more accidents now obviously because there are more divers, but what about as a percentage of persons diving?

Were there more accidents in the past becuase the equipment and general knowledge (and training?) was not like it is now, or perhaps it's the reverse. People who dove 40 years ago were mostly professionals as opposed to most now being only occassional recreational divers.

I was just curious what the stats would show.

[gmr389]

What's the margin of error, tho? It could be as high as 100%, in which case you may be dead but just don't know it!

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[mega]

Quite a few folks have been keeping stats for a long time. The absolute number of deaths has remained relatively steady as the number of divers and dives has increased exponentially, i.e. In summary the incidence has dropped dramatically.

Those are the data. Fabricate yer own reasons why.