The decelerating force on the head will vary depending on whether a direct or glancing blow is received. The distance in which the coconut is decelerated is also an important factor. For a stopping distance of 5cm and a direct blow, the force would be 1, kg. From a number of fatalities standpoint, however, the data did not actually directly identify a single fatality, though it did anecdotally report one death:.
Nine trauma admissions resulted from falling coconuts during the 4-year study period; during this time a total of trauma cases were admitted. Thus 2. Injuries were to the back, shoulders, or head. While it might perhaps be possible to use this limited data to come up with a rough global estimate, no study has actually attempted to do this with systematic methodology. Out of admissions in a 3-year period, 49 were from coconut tree trauma. This makes coconut injuries the commonest cause of hospital admission in the area Kirkira.
Most of the injuries occurred in males from 6 to 14 years of age. Clearly, most coconut-related injuries are caused by falling from trees. Children may climb the trees for fun and, at other times, the trees are climbed to dislodge coconuts. Interestingly, according to these studies, more people are injured from falling limbs than from falling coconuts.
Note, also, that very few actual deaths were reported. You should also notice that these injuries seemed to be sustained by local peoples. YOU are more likely to be killed by a falling coconut than by a shark. Not a kid in the Solomon island, but YOU during your summer vacation. It is the original study from that seems to be the ultimate source.
As you can see, only two deaths were reported during the study period. It turns out that these death reports were anecdotal and one was not even during the study period. So, the death toll in the actual study may have been even less, as in zero. Regardless, this number was used to extrapolate death rates to the rest of the world, presuming that other parts of the world where coconut palms are common experience similar death rates.
This claim was further popularized by a press release from a British travel insurance company called Club Direct. There were, at the time, between 70 to shark attacks annually that resulted in 5 to 15 deaths. So, as mentioned above, this would make falling coconuts about 15 times more deadly than sharks.
It was from this report that George Burgess derived his deaths a year claim. No — it's really a result of human feeding behavior. This is when people return to their condos to get lunch," Burgess said, explaining there are generally less people in the water at these times.
Last year's coverage of shark attacks began when an 8-year-boy was attacked by a shark on July 4 while swimming in shallow surf in the ocean near Pensacola, Fla. The boy survived and his severed arm was reattached in surgery. The dramatic story prompted widespread coverage of shark incidents for the remainder of the summer.
There were 91 incidents of shark encounters last summer, Burgess said, including 76 unprovoked attacks on people by sharks. That number actually dropped from the previous year when there were 85 unprovoked attacks by sharks on people. Its origin can be traced back to and a man with a motive. George Burgess, shark researcher at the University of Florida, director of the international shark attack file had been asked to speak at a NOAA sponsored press conference.
A series of east coast attacks had stirred a pardon the pun media frenzy and the public was seriously frightened. So like any good politician, George decided someone had to get pushed under the bus. The media loved it, the press re-ran the quote all over and the public mind has has been deeply ingrained with an unnecessary fear of falling coconuts ever since.
Sadly today most homeowners in Hawaii prefer to neuter their trees cut all the young flowers from the tree before they mature so no fruit ever even sets, reinforcing the statistic we prefer to propagandize instead.
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