Fried Skindiver

Fried Skindiver
Recently, Fire Marshals found a corpse in a burnt section of forest while they were assessing damage done by a recent forest fire. The deceased male had been dressed in a now-melted 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 of a man who had been reported missing a week before. The next of kin were notified.

Instigators then set about determining how a fully clad diver ended up in the middle of a forest fire. It was discovered that, on the day of the fire, the person was seen entering the ocean on a diving trip, 20 kilometers away from the location of the forest fire. The firefighters, seeking to control the spread of the blaze as quickly as possible, had called in a couple of helicopters to saturate the area.

The helicopters towed large buckets, which were dropped into the ocean for rapid filling, then flown to the forest fire and emptied. You guessed it! One minute our diver was marveling at the fish of the Pacific, and in the next breath, he found himself in a fire bucket 300 meters in the air.

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