Offshore Super Series Powerboat Racing Association (OSS) Announces Additional Race Officials

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - Friday, April 15, 2004

The Offshore Super Series Powerboat Racing Association (OSS) announces additional Race Officials to the OSS team. The first race will be in Biloxi, Miss., on April 22-25.

Jim Arvis, a Hall of Champions member from Richmond, Va., has been named OSS Chief Inspector. A past racer and crew chief, Arvis will lead a team of OSS inspectors. Selected to serve as assistant inspectors are Craig Colabella, a long-time Mercury Racing employee, and Kirk Dunteman, who started racing in 1985 and has numerous championships under his belt.

Charlie Bass, of Ft. Lauderdale, will lead a team of divers and paramedics as the OSS Medical and Safety Director. Spanning 18 years in offshore racing as well as medical and safety, Bass began his career at the Lavin Foundation and has worked with seven championship race teams. He currently works with the diver rescue team for his Fire Department. Safety Divers on the OSS team include David DiPatrillo, Rodrigo Gomez, Samual Jackson, Rick Holsomback and Charles A. “Tony” Fitzgerald Jr.

Jim Koert, of Spring Lake, Mich., has been selected as the OSS Chief Starter and Assistant Referee. He has worked with OSS Chief Referee Mike Tomlinson since 1990 and has worked in offshore race production as well as race promotions for more than 20 years.

John Brunner, from the Fort Worth area, will oversee the dry and wet pits as OSS Race Village Director for Biloxi. He will serve as a communications liaison for the OSS racing teams. Brunner works in the marine air conditioning industry, where he holds two revolutionary patents and owns Nauticool Air.

In addition, OSS Technical Chair George Linder has been assisted with the OSS Rulebook by long-time racers and offshore experts Jim Dyke, Jerry Gilbreath, Jimmy Goerlitz, Sonny Hawkins and Peter Hledin.

OSS is a not for profit organization dedicated to the further development and growth of offshore powerboat racing in North America. For more information, check out: www.offshoresuperseries.com.

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Well I was gonna make a smart ass comment...... but if you got Craig Colabella in the program it has integrity.

...seems like an All-Star Line-Up of Officials....very impressive...Good Luck!

I started to congratulate Jim Arvis on the board earlier this week but thought I would wait until I saw something official. Jim knows more about rules than the people writing them so I wouldn't try anything thats not in the book. Jim loves controversy and will not back down from anyone trying to get over.

All this ass kissing you think I was racing wouldn't ya.

Eddie