Philadelphia: Gary Gentile Productions. Near Fine. 1992. Softcover. 0962145343 . B&W and Color; 6 X 9"; 152 pages; Soft cover has a black spine with white lettering. Very slight rubbing to the covers. Pages are clean and tight; appears as if unused. Illustrated with color and b/w pictures. 'Gary Gentile is a wreck diver. It has been suggested that Gary Gentile may be the most experienced wreck diver in the world...During the early 1990s, Gentile pioneered the use of mixed gases in wreck diving...He also published the first book on technical diving, The Technical Diving Handbook, and the field began to gain recognition as a separate stratum of the sport from conventional recreational diving. In many of his books Gentile notes that before technical diving was recognised as a sub-stratum of the sport, divers who consciously engaged in planned decompression diving were shunned by major diver training agencies as "gorilla divers". ' Glossary; index. .

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Bookseller: Pegasusbooks.biz (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 14796
Title: Ultimate Wreck-diving Guide
Author: Gentile, Gary
Format/Binding: Softcover
Book Condition: Used - Near Fine
Binding: Paperback
ISBN 10: 0962145343
ISBN 13: 9780962145346
Publisher: Gary Gentile Productions
Place of Publication: Philadelphia
Date Published: 1992
Keywords: 0962145343, Deep Diving;, Marine Archaeology;, Scuba Diving;, Technical Diving;, Underwater Archaeology;, Hobbies;, Sports;, Reference;, Shipwrecks; Marine; Oceanography; Archaeology; Cul

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