If you think your day is bad...
Fire Authorities in California found a corpse in a burnt out section
of forest whilst assessing the damage done by a forest fire. The deceased
male was dressed in a full wetsuit, complete with a dive tank, flippers
and face mask. A post mortem examination revealed that the person died
not from burns but from massive internal injuries. Dental records provided
a positive identification. Investigators then set about determining how
a fully clad diver ended up in the middle of a forest fire. It was revealed
that, on the day of the fire, the person went for a diving trip off the
coast - some 20 kilometers away from the forest.
The firefighters, seeking to control the fire as quickly as possible,
called in a fleet of helicopters with very large buckets. The buckets
were dropped into the ocean for rapid filling, then flown to the forest
fire and emptied. You guessed it. One minute our diver was making like
Flipper in the Pacific, the next he was doing a breaststroke in a fire
bucket 300m in the air. Apparently, he extinguished exactly 1.78m (5'10")
of the fire.
Some days it just doesn't pay to get out of bed.
(Extracted from: http://www.urbanlegends.com/death/scuba_forest_fire.html)
1. What do you tink of the story? Is it true?
2. Have you ever heard any story of this kind? Which?
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