Diving in Forest Fires

Attendees

Holly Armstrong 7K76 BNR

Seyma Atik 7K76 BNR

James Beuerman 7K76 BNR

Brett Buckingham 7K76 BNR

Wee-Lin Chew 7K76-M BNR

Daniel Doliska 7K76 BNR

Greg Farnsworth 7K76 BNR

Peter Frellick 7K76 BNR

John Posavad 7K76 BNR

Rajeev Rajagopal 7K76 BNR

Cameron Turner 7K76 BNR

Xinxin Wang 7K76 BNR

Paul Demers 7C52-M BNR

Todd Horsman 7K64 BNR

Bryan Miller 7K62 BNR

Colin McAdorey TA23 BNR

Douglas Carles 7K62 BNR

Paul Ensing 7K70-M BNR

Colin Kemp 7K76 BNR

Author

Colin Kemp 7K76 BNR

Summary

Hmmm...Maybe I'll rethink my decision to take up scuba diving...

Col

For your information:

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Sad story from the front lines...


Vish

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If you think you're having a bad day...

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 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!!!!!