Diver Found In Forest Fire

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

 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 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 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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