Curt welcomes legendary diver and explorer Gary Gentile, who recounts how teenage sewer and wild-cave exploration led him to scuba training, then a lifelong passion for shipwrecks and roughly 2,500 dives. Gentile describes suing the U.S. government and NOAA for access to the USS Monitor, winning after eight years to open diving to everyone, and then facing repeated IRS audits. He explains how combat wounds left lasting disabilities—especially sciatic pain and reduced lung capacity—that affected his diving and ultimately ended his career after a severe sciatica attack on a 200th Andrea Doria dive in 2009. Gentile details early deep wreck diving on air and later trimix, open-circuit gear for dives to 420 feet, artifact recovery on the Monitor, extensive Doria exploration, china and ceramic panel recoveries, and rivalry-driven antics between  ...