The Galloping Ghost: The Extraordinary Life of Submarine Legend Eugene Fluckey
Carl LaVO, a graduate of the University of Florida at Gainesville, is the author ofSlade Cutter: Submarine WarriorandBack from the Deep: The Strange Story of the Sister Subs Squalus and Sculpin,both published by the Naval Institute Press. He has also written many articles for the Institute's two magazines,ProceedingsandNaval History,and a variety of general-interest periodicals. His television appearances include the History Channel series Silent Service and Man, Moment and Machine.An award-winning journalist, LaVO is assistant managing editor of theCourier Timesin Bucks County, Pennsylvania, where he lives with his wife Mary Anne. He is an experienced scuba diver and has explored many of the water-filled caverns and subterranean rivers of Florida, exceeding depths of two hundred feet. A childhood interest in the atomic submarineNautilusand the bookTwenty Thousand Leagues under the Seaby Jules Verne gave him a lifelong curiosity about the Silent Service and undersea exploration.