Everyone loves a treasure hunt, but did you know only a small percentage of people in the world have ever found real buried or sunken treasure? Now, you can learn how! The author shares firsthand experiences of the trials and jubilations of recovering an ancient shipwreck that sank in 1660 just off the coast of Jupiter, Florida. We all have a sense of curiosity and a call to explore. Many readers know of the great undersea explorers of all time, Jacques Cousteau and Mel Fisher, with their quests for sunken treasure worth tens of millions of dollars. Now more than ever, explorers need to know and understand that they can indeed find and recover their own treasures, many of which are still out there waiting to be found. Chock full of large photographs; includes an educational glossary "This is a good layman's account of the equipment and procedures for underwater shipwreck salvage, applicable both to the underwater archaeologist and the treasure hunter, although the latter are a dying breed." . . . Dr. Ray McAllister, Professor Emeritus, Ocean Engineering
Yvonne comes from the land of baseball (Cooperstown N.Y.) and resides in Jupiter, Florida.
Being a world traveler, undersea explorer, and part owner of a treasure ship that is still being recovered today, she writes about a popular niche of history. Her readers always long to hear more of "the golden age of piracy," but from the past to the present.
She studied to be an art educator and athletic coach, and earned an Associates Degree in Fine Arts and a Bachelor of Science Degree in Visual Arts from the University of New Paltz, NY.
Yvonne Addario is a member of the PADI Diving Society, Sunken Treasure Literature Club, Backroom Writers Group, Florida's Publishers Association and an accomplished writer for her books on undersea adventures. She is also a director of a computer graphics and web design company One site example she has created and is related to her field of experience is http://jupitercoins.com. In turn, her talents turned to publishing and helping unknown authors discover their dream of publishing become a reality.
She has published Diving for Sunken Treasure: Excerpts from the Jupiter Wreck Trilogy for the cruise-ship industry, where her husband and she are invited as "Enrichment Speakers" aboard Royal Caribbean, Celebrity and Regency cruise lines. As well as publishing her husbands book, A Guide to Responsible Undersea Exploration which is due to release, September 2010.
She has written and published Treasure Diving with Captain Dom. She also writes about her shipwreck for newsletters, Web-based businesses, mailings, and newspaper and magazine articles.
She is presently working on 12 other books stemming from the "Parties with the Pirates" book, each related to party entertaining and adventures in travel with the captain, books meant for readers from adults to children.
