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Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2000 09:15:31 -0400
Subject: Re: Diving the San Diego
From: Jim Cobb <cobber@ma*.ci*.co*>
To: <Jsuw@ao*.co*>, <techdiver@aquanaut.com>
I really don't like it when divers die. This saddens me greatly.

I hope that the lesson is not lost here, but with all you hard-headed,
dumbass divers out there I'm sure it will be.

   Jim
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> From: <Jsuw@ao*.co*>
> Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2000 23:25:01 EDT
> To: techdiver@aquanaut.com
> Subject: Diving the San Diego
> 
> http://www.news12.com/longisland/stories/story_080200_divingaccident.shtml
> 
> The above link begins:
> 
> The Suffolk County Police Homicide Squad is investigating the circumstances
> surrounding a diving accident which occurred early Tuesday afternoon by the
> wreck of the U.S.S. San Diego.
> 
> Fifty-six year old Anthony N. Maffatone of Bloomingdale, New Jersey, along
> with six other divers, was aboard the "WAHOO," which is a fifty foot long
> diving boat. The divers were seven and a half miles due south of Fire Island
> Pines, over the wreck of the U.S.S. San Diego.
> 
> Around 11:00 Anthony jumped into the water for what should have been at least
> a two hour dive. Anthony, who was an experienced diver surfaced after only 15
> minutes without his equipment. The other divers on the boat pulled his
> unconscious body back on board. It was apparent at that point that he was
> dead. 
> 
> From: Jsuw@ao*.co*
> Date: Wednesday, August 2, 2000 11:22 PM
> To: techdiver@aquanaut.com
> Subject: Re: ABC on Diving the San Diego
> 
> 
> http://www.news12.com/longisland/stories/story_080200_divingaccident.shtml
> 
> The above link begins:
> 
> "The Suffolk County Police Homicide Squad is investigating the circumstances
> surrounding a diving accident which occurred early Tuesday afternoon by the
> wreck of the U.S.S. San Diego.
> 
> Fifty-six year old Anthony N. Maffatone of Bloomingdale, New Jersey, along
> with six other divers, was aboard the "WAHOO," which is a fifty foot long
> diving boat. The divers were seven and a half miles due south of Fire Island
> Pines, over the wreck of the U.S.S. San Diego."
> 
> 


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