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Welcome to The Explorers at Exploration Design Studio-Xds!
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Explorer. Teacher. Leader. Mentor. These are some of the words used to describe Lamar Hires, president and owner of Dive Rite, a world-class company that manufactures Equipment for Serious Divers.
During the 70's and 80's, Lamar was one of the pioneer underwater cave explorers. He helped to map many of north-central Florida's cave sites. He has since gone on to be a leader in technical diving: he is an active cave and technical diving instructor, and he recently retired as Chairman of the prestigious National Speleological Society-Cave Diving Section (NSS-CDS). In 1997, he led an expedition to map and videotape virgin underwater cave in Japan's Akko-Do region.
Like a player/coach, Lamar sets the example Team Dive Rite members live by: Dive actively. Find out what serious divers really need. Make the equipment that meets those needs. Never compromise. Period.
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Dive Rite is a registered trademark of Lamartek, Inc. dba Dive Rite. Copyright and trademark materials used with expressed consent.
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Enter the wild, exciting, and exotic world of Gary Gentile: author, lecturer, photographer, explorer, and deep sea wreck diver!
Gary started his diving career in 1970. Shortly thereafter, the lure of deep diving and a fascination with shipwrecks beckoned him to begin his wreck diving adventures.
By 1974, he was exploring the renowned Andrea Doria shipwreck, the Italian passenger liner that all wreck divers long to touch. Since then, he has made more than 150 dives to this famous ship, which lies fifty miles south of Nantucket at a depth of 240 feet in the cold and unforgiving Atlantic Ocean.
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Gary was the first scuba diver to enter the Andrea Doria First Class Dining Room, where he recovered many examples of elegant china. He also recovered and restored hundreds of pieces of lovely jewelry and souvenir items from the Gift Shop area of the wreck while enveloped in the darkness and silt at 220 feet of depth.
Over the years, Gary has rescued many thousands of artifacts from the ravages of the sea. He has gone to great lengths to preserve and restore these relics. He displays them to tens of thousands of people from all walks of life at various museums and at local, club-oriented shows.
Gary is the author of more than two dozen books: volumes on wreck diving; nautical and shipwreck history; and, novels of science fiction and adventure. He's published scores of articles in magazines and newspapers, and thousands of his photographs have appeared worldwide.
This specialist in wreck diving and shipwreck research has another side to his life: that of an Outdoor Adventurer! In this guise, Gary has climbed rock and mountains, backpacked through country high and low, bivouacked in the snow, and paddled his canoe through rapids in untamed wilderness!
Enter a world of adventure and thrills, a world tempered by poetry and subtle beauty. Enter the world of Gary Gentile!
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Trademark,copyright and modified material used with expressed
consent of Gary Gentile, Gary Gentile Productions.
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http://www.explorers.org/
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"The Explorers Club is an international multidisciplinary, professional society dedicated to the advancement of field research and scientific exploration, and the ideal that it is vital to preserve the instinct to explore. Since its inception in 1904, the Club has served as a meeting point and unifying force for explorers and scientists worldwide."
"The Explorers Club promotes the scientific exploration of land, sea, air and space by sponsoring, assisting, and encouraging research and education in the physical, natural and biological sciences." *
Click on the link to read more about this prestigeous organization; online research expeditions and field reports; a list of sites covering current research, scientific exploration and educational projects undertaken by members of The Explorers Club®; and, their lectures-and-adventure travel program.
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Space.com’s founder and chairman, Lou Dobbs, proudly presents the only site on the web devoted to news, information, education and entertainment focusing entirely on space and space-related content. Dobbs brings to this venture his lifelong fascination with space as well as his expertise and experience in creating the CNNfn.com web site, the most visited financial news site on the Internet. SPACE.com was launched on July 20th, 1999, the 30th anniversary of Neil Armstrong's historic walk on the moon.
"Space.com is the definitive space site on the web, offering the richest, most compelling content for everyone from space fans, astrophysicists and backyard star gazers to educators, business people and science fiction buffs," said Dobbs. "Today's unmanned explorations, space station construction and fascination with all things space excite the public in a way we haven't seen since the manned space flights of the '60s and early '70s. Space is the biggest story of our age."
Space.com offers news on space exploration, missions, NASA, science breakthroughs and discoveries, reports on the commercial space business, live TV and audio feeds, telemetry from space shuttles, "space fiction", children's educational materials, live online chats with astronauts and other space personalities, message boards and an email service.
Be sure to see Space.com’s associated website, starport.com where you can read more about The Space Explorers. You can access the life stories of every person from every nation to have been selected to fly into space. Others have described their missions, but nothing can compare to their own words.
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