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[ScubaBabe22]

SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT THE NEXT TIME YOU'RE HAVING A BAD DAY
(this was an article in the CALIFORNIA EXAMINER, March 20, 1998):
Fire Authorities in California found a corpse in a burnt out section of forest while assessing the damage done by a forest fire. The deceased male was dressed in a full wet suit, 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 miles 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 300 feet in the air. Apparently, he extinguished exactly 5'10" of the fire. Some days it just doesn't pay to get out of bed.

 

[Jamdiver]

I'm pretty sure this is a huge hoax.....
Check out snopes.com for more info..

EDIT - Here it is....

Hoax

[FONT=Bookman Old Style,Arial]Origins: The
tragic tale of the unfortunately scooped diver has been with us at least since 1987. Told at various times as having happened in California or

France, to date there's not been so much as one charred scuba diver recovered from the aftermath of a forest fire in either location. (You'll also sometimes hear of a fisherman found in a tree, still determinedly clutching his fishing pole even in his extra-crispy state of final repose. None of them has been found, either.) [/FONT]
[FONT=Bookman Old Style,Arial]Which is not too surprising — the technology governing both bucket- and scoop-style water bombers rules out anyone being taken up with a load of water. [/FONT]
[FONT=Bookman Old Style,Arial]The intake of the largest helibucket is a one-foot ring. Although 10,000 gallons of water can be carried in the largest "bambi bucket," it all gets in there through that one-foot opening, an aperture far too minuscule for even a small person to be pulled through, let alone a typical-sized one dressed out in scuba gear. [/FONT]
[FONT=Bookman Old Style,Arial]Bombardier water bombers typically have two intakes, but both are 4 inches by 10 inches, far too small to get a diver through. Further, these intakes are protected by grilles. [/FONT]
[FONT=Bookman Old Style,Arial]Helitankers (choppers bearing a fixed tank) suck up water through a hose known as a "donkey dick." The opening to this hose is only a couple of inches in diameter. [/FONT]
[FONT=Bookman Old Style,Arial]Though it's impossible to be scooped or sucked up into a water bomber, there has been at least one injury to a swimmer resulting from coming too near to one while it was in the process of reloading. In 1998, a swimmer in Corsica was caught in eddies caused by a Canadair and thrown against a landing stage. She suffered a bruised leg. [/FONT]
[FONT=Bookman Old Style,Arial] It's been suggested the legend's origin lies in a collection of "how did this person die?" puzzles, this particular one presented as "The charred body of a scuba diver was found high in a tree after a forest fire — how did he get there?" Hypothetical stories have a way of being later remembered as real occurrences, and that likely could have happened here.

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[Fish_Whisperer]

Yeah... This is a hoax, but still, funny as hell to think about. LOL

 

[ScubaBabe22]

Yeah... This is a hoax, but still, funny as hell to think about. LOL

Hahah, yeah, I read it in a Joke forum, but I couldn't resist:mooner:

 

[eclipse785]

Doesn't anyone watch Mythbusters? They blew this myth out of the water (no pun intended). There is no way that this could have happened. - Furthermore I can't beleive people are still talking about it.

 

[scubamickey]

I remember an episode of CSI that had this same plot line.

 

[Fish_Whisperer]

Apparently, he extinguished exactly 5'10" of the fire.

This does it... This is the one sentence that makes me start laughing myself silly, every single time. LOL

 

[azcaddman]

for more info on this 'sport' check out the Firediver website