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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - A reunion at the Hangar AF docks, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, brought together a diver and his rescuers, the crew of KSC's Freedom Star SRB retrieval ship and a medical team. In the photo are (foreground, left to right) KSC Occupational Health physician Skip Beeler, retrieval diver and diver medical technician Andy Fish, and Freedom Star's Captain, Dave Fraine. The diver, Jack Wilcox, suffered decompression sickness on a diving expedition 20 miles off shore in the Atlantic Ocean. When the Freedom Star team heard the call for help, they asked the Coast Guard if they could assist. The ship was out on a crane certification exercise and coincidentally had a diver medical technician and other divers training on the crane. The ship's divers were trained for the hyperbaric chamber on board. Upon reaching the Army dock, KSC Occupational Health physician Skip Beeler entered the chamber and continued the process of helping to stabilize Wilcox. After several hours in the chamber, Wilcox, who lives in Orlando, was airlifted to Florida Hospital Orlando