The Most Dangerous Sports In The World

Sportingo.com recently put together a list of most dangerous sports in the world and fishing made the top ten. Of course, we already knew fishing was dangerous.

6. FISHING: The sedate pastime of angling has one of the highest mortality rates of any sport due to the number of people who drown every year. Rock fishing - which involves casting a line into the ocean from the shoreline - is also notoriously dangerous, with people often losing their lives when they are dragged under by huge unexpected waves. In Australia alone, 15 people died while rock fishing in 2001. Plus, which other sport’s competitors routinely take part in what is, to all intents and purposes, mass murder? Fish have feelings too, you know…

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Saturday August 23rd, 2008 @ 1:09 PM | Clive Mathias

One Response to “The Most Dangerous Sports In The World”

Seen some guys doing this in Japan. Gonna have to give it a whirl someday.

chris on August 23rd, 2008 @ 10:43 pm

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