simple math

[space]

Norway BASE, The Troll wall in the beginning, 250 jumps, 4 deaths = one death per 62.5 jumps.
Kjerag, 7 deaths in 14,000 jumps = one death per 2000 jumps.
62,5/2000 =32 =3200%. I dare you Aftenblad or Dagbladet (local newspapers) to print this.
take care,
space

[guest]

Nice one Space...does any statistician out there have a percentage for skydiving?:7

[imported_Tom Aiello]

See:

http://www.dropzone.com/cgi-bin/foru...gi?post=170723

Which says, in relevant part:

>SKYDIVERS HANDBOOK page 106(I've used this so often, I could probably recite it to you. but here it is verbatim) the version I am "reading" to you from is the 2000 edition.

>THE NUMBERS. USPA figures reveal there are some 302,000 people participating in skydiving each year. 34,000 are active skydivers and the rest are students. Of the 3.2-million jumps made each year,268,000 are by students and the rest are by experienced skydivers.
over the past ten years, there was an annual average of 29 fatal skydiving accidents in the United States yielding a rate of one fatality for every 82,000jumps (at 3 jumps per day , this will take you quite some time) and one for every 3,800 participants. USPA estimates there isone fatality for every 30,000 student jumps. These jump figures can be compared wiht one fatality per 2,308 hang gliding flights and the one in 2,582 Americans who die each year in allaccidental deaths(91,000 out of a total U.S. population of 235,000,000 in 1983).
it should be pionted out that the above figures include all jumpers both those who observe safety procedures and those who take chances. the figures even include some documented suicides.

>It is interesting to compare fatal accident numbers with other activities: in a recent yearover 105 people perished scuba diving,856 bicycling,over 7,000drowned(365 in bathtubs), 1154 succumbed to bee stings, four died playing basketball,1063 while boating,hang gliding lost 13, snowmobiling 60, water skiing 47, and 300 were even hit by lightning. then there are other transportation statistics to compare: in a recent year, 50,000 people were killed in highway accidents, there were 1,171 boating fatalities, 235 airline deaths and 1,164 light aircraft general aviation fatalites.

--Tom Aiello
tbaiello@mac.com