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National Aeronautics and Space Administration
John F. Kennedy Space Center
Kennedy Space Center, Florida 32899
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For Release: Sept. 26, 2002

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KSC Release No. 89 Π 02

 

SCUBA DIVER TO REUNITE WITH KSC WORKERS WHO HELPED SAVE HIM
 
Jack Wilcox, a lobster diver who was rescued by the Freedom Star Solid Rocket Booster 
(SRB) retrieval team Sept. 11, is in good health after recovering from decompression 
sickness.

He will be reunited Monday, Sept. 30, at 1 p.m., with the men who helped save him during a 
diving expedition 20 miles off shore in the Atlantic Ocean.

The reunion with Wilcox and the United Space Alliance booster retrieval team will be held at 
the Hangar AF docks on the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.

   Members of the media will have the opportunity to interview Wilcox and the SRB team, i

including Captain Dave Fraine, Jack Mullen, the USA retrieval supervisor aboard Freedom 
Star; Andy Fish, the retrieval diver and diver medical technician who attended Wilcox in 
Freedom StarΥs recompression chamber.

 Media members who wish to attend the event should arrive at the NASA News Center by 
12:30 p.m. Sept. 30 to be transported to the event. They will be returned to the News Center 
by 3 p.m.

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