Quote Originally Posted by DaleW View Post
Certainly no surprise to me that fishing would top the list.
No surprise to me, either.

They didn't seem to include the number of participants in each activity in the study, though. X-number of people killed per 100,000 fishing vs. Y-number killed per 100,00 while golfing. (Obviously, those statistic would be hard to come by.) Or, for every 100 people killed fishing, Z were killed by lightning.

Lightning, at least at once point, accounted for a high percentage of people killed surfing, but because of the smaller number of participants in that sport vs fishing or golfing, it's not likely to show up as very high.

Those figures would be interesting to know; but still the take away is that lightning is dangerous, be aware and take it seriously.