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About the author:
Peter Hunt was born in New
York and spent six years of
his childhood in Athens,
Greece where he started
diving in 1979. He graduated
from Brown University in
1985 before joining the Navy
and training as an A-6
Intruder attack pilot. Hunt
completed three aircraft
carrier deployments to the
Persian Gulf, Indian Ocean,
and Western Pacific during
ten years of military
service. After leaving the
Navy, Hunt continued to fly
as a United Airlines pilot
until being diagnosed with
Parkinson's Disease in 2005
at age forty-three. Peter
Hunt holds a Masters in
Strategic Planning for
Critical Infrastructure from
the University of Washington
and lives with his wife and
two children on Whidbey
Island. His first book,
Angles of Attack (2002), is
a pilot's account of combat
operations during the first
Gulf War.
Setting the Hook
A Diver's Return to the
Andrea Doria
Authored by Peter M. Hunt
The 1956 collision of the
Andrea Doria and the
Stockholm triggered a night
of sheer terror for the
Andrea Doria’s 1,134
passengers and set in motion one
of history’s most dramatic
rescues at sea. From the moment
the Andrea Doria settled
on the sea floor in 240 feet of
water, skilled amateur divers
have risked their lives to
simply touch her broken hull.
In 1981, wealthy adventurer
Peter Gimbel enlisted the aid of
commercial salvage divers to
torch open the Andrea Doria’s
Foyer Deck doors in search of
treasure and answers. The
unprecedented access to deep
within the sunken ship’s
interior enticed growing numbers
of sport divers to explore the
wreck in increasingly daring
quests for a piece of the “Mt.
Everest of wreck diving.” Not
all returned alive.
Peter Hunt crewed on five
Andrea Doria diving
expeditions during the early
1980s aboard Steve Bielenda’s
legendary research vessel
Wahoo before becoming a Navy
carrier pilot and settling in
Washington State. Nearly twenty
years after first exploring the
Andrea Doria - and
following twelve months of
arduous Pacific Northwest dive
training in the newest equipment
and techniques - Hunt hugged his
wife and children goodbye and
returned to New York to dive the
Andrea Doria once again.
The experience transformed him
forever.
Setting the Hook explores
the Andrea Doria and
extreme diving through an
introspective odyssey of memory
and history back to the
dangerous underwater world of
northeast shipwrecks. Extreme
adventure, thirty years of
technical diving, and enduring
friendships merge in a personal
tale of learning to accept
life’s oldest challenge.
A
Setting the Hook explores the
Andrea Doria and extreme diving
through an introspective odyssey
of memory and history back to
the dangerous underwater world
of northeast shipwrecks. Extreme
adventure, thirty years of
technical diving, and enduring
friendships merge in a personal
tale of learning to accept
life's oldest challenge.
- Publication Date:
- Dec 14 2011
- ISBN/EAN13:
- 1453734201 /
9781453734209
- Page Count:
- 284
- Binding Type:
- US Trade Paper
- Trim Size:
- 6.14" x 9.21"
- Language:
- English
- Color:
- Black and White
- Related Categories:
- History /
Expeditions &
Discoveries
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