This is the story of the many who tried to raise her, of the many who tried to salvage her, and of the few men who braved the elements in the infancy of scuba diving to dive the Doria only 28 hours after the sinking. Interwoven throughout the rest of the book are dramatic images of china deep inside the Doria and the gripping account of the discovery of the ship’s bell, along with scores of artifacts recovered by the author including his now infamous descent and penetration into the ship’s store.

“The Andrea Doria is a ship that did not die upon sinking, but instead found new meaning.” – Gary Gentile
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The first volume describes the life of the Lusitania from birth until its tragic loss in 1918 by the U-20 and chronicles the humble beginnings of wreck diving – at a time when divers were true explorers.

Interwoven throughout the book is a very honest and intense autobiography of Gary Gentile. He describes in great detail the origins of his passion for exploration, his tour of duty in Vietnam that resulted in a long and painful recovery, the beginnings of his diving career, and the harrowing tales of wreck penetrations gone wrong.

The first volume leaves the reader at the end of the 1970’s – the birth of decompression diving.
Gary Gentile
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Again, Gary continues his honest and intense autobiography describing his brush with the bends, more harrowing escapes, death, friendships gone bad, and delves into the origins of mix gas diving, the discovery of the Billy Mitchell wrecks and many of the incredible and often fatal penetrations into the bowels of the Doria.

All of the details of the trials, tribulations, and hardships involved in the 1994 mixed gas expedition to the Lusitania are described here, as well as the many attempt to sabotage this epic expedition. The book doesn’t end here, but only begins as Gary makes a call for the next generation of wreck divers to make history in a quest to go ever deeper and to “take the torch” the pioneers of the sport have placed before us and not be held down by the limitations before us.
Gary Gentile
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