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!!