Reef Fish wrote:

> On Sun, 18 Feb 2001 14:03:34 -0600, J. Kelly Cunningham
> <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>


> Can you give a SUMMARY of the promotional pitch?
>
> -- Bob.
>

Here's the whole thing:

Pacific Aggressors Set New Standards for Dive Safety

Beginning in Spring of 2001, the luxury live-aboard dive yacht Palau
Aggressor II will become one of the world's first live-aboards to offer free
ACR EPIRBs on all their charters.

ACR EPIRBs (Electronically Produced Indicating Radio Beacons) represent the
latest in dive safety. These compact instruments, slightly larger than cell
phones, enable a captain and crew to instantly track divers who may become
accidentally separated from their mother vessel.

Waterproof to 200 feet, these EPIRBs will be carried by each divemaster and
buddy team. In an emergency separation, divers will simply raise the
instrument's antenna, emitting a trackable radio signal to an
omni-directional receiver on board the Palau Aggressor II.

This is an especially important safety feature for drift divers in
challenging locations such as Palau. Current, waves and radical wind shifts
while divers are under water can create potential drift-away situations,
making audio and visual signaling devices less effective than normal.

In another pioneering move, beginning this spring, the South Pacific
Aggressors in Kona, Truk, Palau and Fiji will join the Caribbean Aggressors
as they begin carrying on-board heart defibrillators on all charters.

After careful training, their charter captains will have a significantly
greater chance of reviving a person's heart during a coronary emergency.
However, as an added safety feature, these particular defibrillators will
administer a shock only if the diver has no existing heartbeat.

Dan Ruth, General Manager of Live/Dive Pacific, emphasized, "We hope this
will pave the way toward making defibrillators standard for the entire
charter diving industry."