Gary Gentile

Gary Gentile

Gary Gentile is an American author and technical diver.

Diving

Gary Gentile is a wreck diver. He has dived on the wreck of the "SS Andrea Doria" (sometimes referred to as the "Mount Everest" of SCUBA diving) over 180 times, and was the first diver to penetrate the first class dining room of the vessel.

During the early 1990s, Gentile pioneered the use of mixed gases in wreck diving. He has also participated in expeditions to the "SMS Ostfriesland" (at a depth of 380 feet), which would serve as the impetus for greater exploration of deep-water shipwrecks, and the "RMS Lusitania" (at a depth of 300 feet).

He achieved fame within the diving community with his publication of "Advanced Wreck Diving" in the 1980s. He also published the first book on technical diving and the field began to gain recognition as a separate stratum of the sport from recreational diving.

Author

Gary Gentile has published 45 books. He has written several technical books relating to diving, as well as extensive documentation of the shipwrecks of North America. He has also published a number of futuristic fantasy fictional works, although none of these have been a notable commercial success.

Other

Gary Gentile served in the 25th Infantry Division during the Vietnam conflict where he was severely wounded.

Bibliography

Non-fiction

*"Shipwrecks of New Jersey" (1988)
*"Track of the Gray Wolf: U-Boat Warfare on the U.S. Eastern Seaboard, 1942-1945" (1989)
*"Andrea Doria: Dive to an Era" (1989)
*"USS San Diego: The Last Armoured Cruiser" (1989)
*"Shipwrecks of Delaware and Maryland" (1990)
*"Shipwrecks of North Carolina from Hatteras Inlet south" (1992)
*"Shipwrecks of Virginia" (1992)
*"Ultimate Wreck-Diving Guide" (1992)
*"Advanced Wreck Diving Guide" (1992)
*"Shipwrecks of North Carolina from the Diamond Shoals North" (1993)
*"Ironclad Legacy: Battles of the USS Monitor" (1993)
*"Primary Wreck Diving Guide" (1994)
*"Wreck Diving Adventures" (1994)
*"The Nautical Cyclopedia" (1995)
*"Lonely Planet Shipwrecks of New York" (1996)
*"The Lusitania Controversies: Atrocity of War and a Wreck-Diving History" (1998)
*"The Technical Diving Handbook" (1998)
*"The Lusitania Controversies: Dangerous Descents into Shipwrecks and Law" (1999)
*"Great Lakes Shipwrecks: A Photographic Odyssey" (2003)
*"Shipwrecks of South Carolina and Georgia" (2003)
*"Shipwrecks of Rhode Island and Connecticut" (2004)
*"Deep, Dark, and Dangerous: Adventures and Reflections on the Andrea Doria" (2005)
*"Shadow Divers Exposed: The Real Saga of the U-869" (2006)
*"The Fuhrer's U-boats in American Waters" (2006)

Fiction

*"Time for Dragons" (series)
**"1. A Time for Dragons" (1989)
**"2. Dragons Past" (1990)
**"3. No Future for Dragons" (1990)
*"The Lurking" (1989)
*"The Peking Papers" (1992)
*"Return to Mars" (2005)
*"Entropy" (2006)
*"Silent Autumn" (2006)
*"Lonely Conflict: A Novel of the Vietnam War" (2006)
*"Mind Set" (2006)
*"Memory Lane" (2007)
*"A Different Universe: Tales of Imagination" (2005)
*"A Different Dimension: More Tales of Imagination" (2005)

External links

* [http://www.ggentile.com/ Gary Gentile productions]
* [http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/g/gary-gentile/ Fantastic fiction - Gary Gentile]
* [http://www.starfishtng.com/starfish.htm Starfish Enterprises - 1994 "Lusitania" expedition]


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