Dinghy development: Sailing is safer than angling...

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Sailing is safer than angling...

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Topic: Sailing is safer than angling...

Posted By: alstorer
Subject: Sailing is safer than angling...
Date Posted: 25 Sep 13 at 7:02am

http://www.rospa.com/leisuresafety/Info/Watersafety/inland-waters-risk-assessment.pdf" rel="nofollow - At the very least, it is inland. Considerably so . See the (terrible) chart on page 4 of this RoSPA report- the shorter the bar, the riskier the activity, and it is a log scale.

Safer even than rowing.

Windsurfing is safer, surely inland kite surfing is almost non-existent in the UK?

Raw data tables, which include coastal fatalities, http://www.nationalwatersafety.org.uk/waid/reports.asp" rel="nofollow - are here

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Posted By: LASERNUT
Date Posted: 25 Sep 13 at 7:10am

More people drown horse riding than sailing.

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Posted By: transient
Date Posted: 25 Sep 13 at 10:08am

coconuts are more ferocious than great white sharks.

Posted By: iitick
Date Posted: 25 Sep 13 at 11:53am

That is only with thw assistance of gravity. Try having a Great White fall on you out of a tree.

Posted By: maxibuddah
Date Posted: 25 Sep 13 at 1:35pm

Originally posted by iitick

That is only with thw assistance of gravity. Try having a Great White fall on you out of a tree.

Not if they're thrown at you. Who in their right mind is going to thrown a great white at you? I suspect that their tails flipping around would stop you picking it up, either that or they would bite you. Very dangerous that, is it in the stats?

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Posted By: getafix
Date Posted: 25 Sep 13 at 1:56pm

Originally posted by maxibuddah

Originally posted by iitick

That is only with thw assistance of gravity. Try having a Great White fall on you out of a tree.

"Great White Shark Tossing".. it's in there between "Run down by a Whale (aka V2)" and "Really Mr Ainslie, I was only wanting to take your picture"

Posted By: Rupert
Date Posted: 25 Sep 13 at 2:31pm

I believe that more people are killed by spoons than by guns in the UK.

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Posted By: maxibuddah
Date Posted: 25 Sep 13 at 2:49pm

Does it say if the spoons are thrown?

I'm starting to lean towards government intervention and a countrywide ban on throwing things. As usual though they won't think it through properly. There will be loopholes of course, such as tossing. The countryside will be full of weekend t**sers before you know it. And the Daily Express will be in uproar

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Posted By: iitick
Date Posted: 25 Sep 13 at 3:06pm

Sailing can be dangerous. I have had to lock myself in the starters hut when OOD.........