Post by TheXtremisT on Feb 15, 2009 10:17:10 GMT -5
Hey, back again with the third installment
Remember to take these myths at face value only
Apparently this myth was touched upon in an episode of CSI
DEAD SCUBA DIVER IN TREE
In 1987, police in southern France found themselves dealing with a bizarre death. Forest rangers found the stiffened corpse of a diver, wearing wetsuit, mask, flippers and breathing gear, lying trapped in the upper branches of a tree that had been charred and blackened by a recent forest fire.
The dead diver did not appear to be burned, apart from two places where the wetsuit had melted onto his skin, and a post mortem showed that he had died not from burns but from internal injuries consistent with being crushed. But how had he been crushed, and how had he come to be swimming in a treetop some 50 miles from the coast? After identifying the body, police established that Monsieur Morton, a lawyer from Paris, had been holidaying in St Tropez and that on the day of the forest fire he had been diving off the Riviera.
The only explanation for his presence in the forest was that he had been sucked into the "heli-bucket" of one of the fire fighting helicopters, which had flown to the coast to take up water. Fire-fighting helicopters suck up water through an intake that is supposed to be narrow enough to prevent a person being sucked in. However, in M. Morton's case, the squeeze into the bucket had evidently pulverised his bones and internal organs.
Although the chances of this happening might appear to be extremely slim, there have been reports since of divers being found in trees after forest fires in California and Australia.
thanks for reading, and as per usual, don't hesitate to voice your opinions
Remember to take these myths at face value only
Apparently this myth was touched upon in an episode of CSI
DEAD SCUBA DIVER IN TREE
In 1987, police in southern France found themselves dealing with a bizarre death. Forest rangers found the stiffened corpse of a diver, wearing wetsuit, mask, flippers and breathing gear, lying trapped in the upper branches of a tree that had been charred and blackened by a recent forest fire.
The dead diver did not appear to be burned, apart from two places where the wetsuit had melted onto his skin, and a post mortem showed that he had died not from burns but from internal injuries consistent with being crushed. But how had he been crushed, and how had he come to be swimming in a treetop some 50 miles from the coast? After identifying the body, police established that Monsieur Morton, a lawyer from Paris, had been holidaying in St Tropez and that on the day of the forest fire he had been diving off the Riviera.
The only explanation for his presence in the forest was that he had been sucked into the "heli-bucket" of one of the fire fighting helicopters, which had flown to the coast to take up water. Fire-fighting helicopters suck up water through an intake that is supposed to be narrow enough to prevent a person being sucked in. However, in M. Morton's case, the squeeze into the bucket had evidently pulverised his bones and internal organs.
Although the chances of this happening might appear to be extremely slim, there have been reports since of divers being found in trees after forest fires in California and Australia.
thanks for reading, and as per usual, don't hesitate to voice your opinions