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RE: Confirmed detah of Sheck Exley:

> confirmed sir... we lost the great sheck last week, he passed the
>
> 1000' mark and didn't come back... no answers as of yet.
>
> his body was "accidently" recovered yesterday (4-10) when they
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> pulled in the line with his stage bottles, he was tangled past
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> the 1000' mark.

What was the prognosis?  Was he accidentally brought up by the
  stage line,  or is there the possibility he was already tangled at
  depth and then couldn't get free to come up (loss of concentration
  and/or O2 hit at depth?) ?

> our shop flags will be at half...

We sympathise.

Regards,

Jan.

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