Safety Statistics
 

Some interesting statistics.

ACCIDENT ACCIDENT NUMBER OF NUMBER OF
RANK TYPE ACCIDENTS FATALITIES
1 COLLISION WITH VESSEL 1,378 79
2 FALLS OVERBOARD 498 213
3 COLLISION WITH FIXED OBJECT 497 41
4 SKIER MISHAP 464 10
5 CAPSIZING 442 199

There is much more here:

Accident Statistics

I'm not sure how to format this stuff, the editor removes extra spaces.

"Chlorinating the Gene Pool"

Darwin was right! The Darwin Awards

All in all it looks like we're getting safer.
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To paraphrase a my old social research prof "statistics don't lie, but there sure are a lot of people who misapply them."