2006-08-17 13:22:58 · 26 answers · asked by STEVE0 THE CLOWN 3 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Jokes & Riddles
He was scooped up by a fire fighting helicoptor in a water bucket
2006-08-17 13:26:58 · answer #1 · answered by Bear Naked 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Here is the story:
May 6, 2006
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.
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This is an urban legend. The same story is in Australia, and the French, not to be out done, have one.
Here is the link to the myth:
http://tafkac.org/death/scuba_forest_fire.html
2006-08-17 20:35:12 · answer #2 · answered by johnny j 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There was a fire in the forest so a helicopter lowered a huge bucket into the sea and scooped up the scuba diver, accidentally, and dumped him and the water on the forest fire.
2006-08-17 20:30:21 · answer #3 · answered by endangered_jen 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well urban legend would say that he was scooped up by a fire fighter plain that was getting water to put out a forest fire, and then was dumped in the forest with the water that was to put out the fire. This myth is wrong, but thats what "happened".
2006-08-17 20:28:26 · answer #4 · answered by uninnocent21 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
there was a fire and the plane that scoped up the water in a lake also got the diver and when it dropped the water onto the fire the diver went too.
2006-08-17 20:27:46 · answer #5 · answered by Bob 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He was taking a plane home and the plane crashed in the middle of the forest, how else?
2006-08-17 20:27:17 · answer #6 · answered by my2cents 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's a myth... There was a forest fire... he was scooped up by a waterplane... and dumped over the forest.
You can read the whole story here.
http://www.snopes.com/horrors/freakish/scuba.asp
2006-08-17 20:27:40 · answer #7 · answered by Village Idiot 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
there was a forest fire and the helicopters were hauling large buckets of water from the lake nearby to put it out. He got caught in one and was burned to death.
2006-08-17 21:42:43 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
he jumped out of a plane to go diving, but miscalculated wind speeds and the speed th plane was moving. He also deployed a parachute to soon, glided into the trees, and was eaten alive by a flock of pigeons.
2006-08-17 20:29:01 · answer #9 · answered by meflyfaster 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mythbusters, Busted!
2006-08-17 20:29:43 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋