Hi all, After reading a quote from an Australian Parachute federation official that out of 300,000 jumps per annum there is an average of 2.7 deaths per year in Australia due to skydiving accidents, I would like people's opinion on skydiving statistics and do you think they truly represent a jumpers chance of dying from this sport? In Australia, there has been only one Tandem fatality since the 80s so 2.7 deaths/annum is not representative of deaths doing tandem skydives. Does that mean that the statistics for licensed skydivers are a lot worse? Should we be measuring the percentage of fatalities against the number of participants in the sport rather than relative to the total number of skydives done per year accross all disciplines? Obviously the different disciplines have different risks and it would be interesting to see how these different risks are represented by the statistics rather than a very general 2.7 deaths/annum which incorrectly implies equal risk accross all skydiving disciplines. What do others think?
