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.