Found a stat about dive accidents that really caught me off guard

I was reading through some old OSHA reports last night and saw that over 60% of commercial diving fatalities happen in water less than 30 feet deep. That blew my mind because I always thought deeper dives were the real danger zone. Has anyone else run into stats like this that changed how you look at shallow water jobs?

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morgan_lewis181mo ago

Huh, I see it totally different because shallow water actually gives you less time to fix problems.

henry_hernandez1mo ago

Wait, @morgan_lewis18 are you saying the shallower water makes things worse because you gotta fix stuff faster? That's interesting bc I feel like deeper water gives you more room for error but less warning when something actually goes wrong. Like in deeper water you got a few extra seconds to react but if you mess up its way harder to recover. I've been in water where the bottom is just a few feet down and honestly I just stand there trying to fix things while the boat drifts. What kind of problems are you thinking about where shallow water is the bad guy here?