Where is Fire Diving ?

While many fire diving teams practice on a regular basis, there are very few scheduled fire diving competitions. Most Fire Divers have Police scanners to monitor major fires and watch the news for major fires in their area. As you might expect the LA and Malibu Canyon have very active Fire Diving teams.

In northern Canada there are lots of lakes that are dead from acid rain. There's not much to see in them, but during the forest fire season, the ones near the fires get dived constantly. Why? SCUBA divers hitching rides, that's why. It is not usually talk about because the opportunities are limited and there's already a lot of competition fopr rides. Elgurp Helgelpikkl is the current record holder with an astounding 17 rides over the Wassdasukken Sound outbreak, Labrador, summer of '93, 2700 hectares. In this case, they were actually scooping, making the record that much more unbelievable.

Harold Faustland was the record holder untill an investigation revealed that his incredible 19-scoop summer in '89 was done illeagly, because of those three particularly controversial scoops (the pilot was his brother-in-law, and there was some evidence that the choice of lakes was influenced by this.)

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