Having a bad day??

[Gordon Nimmo]

Ouch!


>
>THINK YOU'RE HAVING A BAD DAY....? check out these actual cases:
>
>Fire authorities in California found a corpse in a burned-out section of a
>forest while assessing the damage done by a forest fire. The deceased male
>was dressed in a full wet suit, complete with scuba tanks on his back,
>flippers, and face mask.
>
>A postmortem test revealed that the man died not from burns, but from
>massive internal injuries. Dental records provided a positive
>identification.
>
>Investigators then set about to determine how a fully clothed diver ended up
>in the middle of a forest fire.
>
>It was revealed that on the day of the fire, the man went diving off the
>coast, some 20 miles from the forest. The fire fighters, seeking to control
>the fire as quickly as possible, had called in a fleet of helicopters with
>very large dip buckets. Water was dipped from the ocean and emptied at the
>site of the forest fire.
>
>You guessed it. One minute our diver was making like Flipper in the Pacific,
>the next, he was doing the breast stroke in a fire dip bucket 300 feet in
>the air.
>
>Some days it just doesn't pay to get out of bed.
>___________________________________________

[MarkA]

Sorry but that is one of the oldest urban myths around

The episode of C.S.I. with a diver in a tree after a forest fire had a more plausible explanation

[nick kay]

Almost as good as the two divers coming across a cave, entering it and finding an air pocket, getting out of the water & being run over by the train in the channel tunnel...

[Gordon Nimmo]

Ouch!


>
>THINK YOU'RE HAVING A BAD DAY....? check out these actual cases:
>
>Fire authorities in California found a corpse in a burned-out section of a
>forest while assessing the damage done by a forest fire. The deceased male
>was dressed in a full wet suit, complete with scuba tanks on his back,
>flippers, and face mask.
>
>A postmortem test revealed that the man died not from burns, but from
>massive internal injuries. Dental records provided a positive
>identification.
>
>Investigators then set about to determine how a fully clothed diver ended up
>in the middle of a forest fire.
>
>It was revealed that on the day of the fire, the man went diving off the
>coast, some 20 miles from the forest. The fire fighters, seeking to control
>the fire as quickly as possible, had called in a fleet of helicopters with
>very large dip buckets. Water was dipped from the ocean and emptied at the
>site of the forest fire.
>
>You guessed it. One minute our diver was making like Flipper in the Pacific,
>the next, he was doing the breast stroke in a fire dip bucket 300 feet in
>the air.
>
>Some days it just doesn't pay to get out of bed.
>___________________________________________



Yeah I know is an urban myth but it made me laugh when being at work on monday!!

[Matt]

I think this lot are looking for members. Alledgedly their turnover is higher than BSACs :-)

[Khaled Alwassia]

I think this lot are looking for members. Alledgedly their turnover is higher than BSACs :-)

Oh it is helarious. Thanks for the link.

Khaled

[Diveboy]

This story used to be about the big Canadaires, the seaplanes that skim along the surface of the water to refill their tanks. That was until someone pointed out that the refill scoop was about the size of a packet of fags.

I've dived with some small divers, but.....