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[ritaxis]

This from the BBC: Three sailors die and a fourth is missing during a California yacht race, only weeks after another fatal accident off the same coast.

The California coast is not a small place: 840 miles long.  So two fatal accidents in the course of "weeks" does not constitute a trend.

Yacht races still dumb, though, even though my brother in law loves them.

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[redbird]

That's either poor analysis, or poor writing: it's not clear from this how far apart the two accidents were, or whether there were any other connections (similar weather or such).