Tom Vetter

Those who can, do. Those who can do no longer, teach - or better still, write! Tom Vetter has done both - living it first and then writing about it. As a naval officer he served more than two decades in submarines and deep submergence vehicles. During his career, Commander Vetter sailed more than 100,000 miles, operated diesel and nuclear submarines during the Vietnam and Cold Wars, piloted the Navy’s bathyscaph TRIESTE II (DSV-1) and commercial submersibles, and found men, equipment, aircraft and shipwrecks on dives venturing deeper than 3 miles. His undersea exploration and search innovations are still used by the U.S. Navy and others.

After several lives' worth of adventure at sea, Tom retired from the U.S. Navy's Submarine Force and worked another career in IT and telecommunications, operating a successful IT architecture business for a decade before his wife's health required a second retirement.

Writing has become his third career. In the past three years, Tom has written a memoir of his undersea adventures and two books of a planned four-book historical fiction series centered on The First Crusade.

Tom lives with his wife in Virginia. And as care-giving duties permit, he writes every day.