Reddit Challenge story #2

Underwater Basket Weaving Tragedy.

Amos Diaz lived a life that few people could imagine, and even fewer people would ever experience. For a man like Amos, the most difficult of tasks came easy and the most profound realizations became simplistic. Amos excelled in all of his pursuits, and raised a lovely family with his wife, who he had met in High School. Amos so excelled at the pursuits of the norm that he came to seek pursuits above and beyond the norm. He was not happy in life if not engaged in a challenge, and the level of challenge he required for satisfaction was greater than that of 10 men’s greatest challenges combined. This is how Amos discovered the CUBWA, the Competitive Underwater Basket Weaving Association.
At age 16, Amos competed in his first youth underwater basket weaving challenge and astounded judges by completing his basket 1 minute and 47 seconds faster than the runner up. With the top basket weavers in the nation at the time rarely defeating their opponents by more than a few tenths of a second, Amos was in another league before even reaching the pros. Amos went on to weave professionally, and won 6 consecutive World Underwater Basket Weaving Championships before his death yesterday in Sydney, Australia. While competing in an exhibition weave at a depth of 20 meters, he became tangled in his supplies and drowned. Rescue workers were unable to obtain his body as it was immediately devoured by a shark. The tragedy is that he was only 26 years old.