Originally Posted by
genec
Interesting though, how close in odds, skydiving and cycling are. I would have thought skydiving vastly more dangerous... I would think each and every "accident" was fatal. (except for the rare "near death")
The first report takes into account numbers of participants, hopefully, although it may be hard to know how accurate it is.
I have no doubt there are quite a few non-fatal accidents with skydiving. Broken legs, getting stuck in trees, etc. Deploying chutes is checked and double checked, and redundant chutes are normally carried.
Base jumping is somewhat more dangerous because there is a lot less time to recover from failures.
The report I found, above, just reports raw numbers of injuries. So, there are more bowlers than Rugby players, and thus more injuries with bowling. How did they exclude MTBs from their cycling stats? Anyway, raw injuries without also estimating the number of participants, or time doing the activity aren't very representative.