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Carl LaVO, a native of California, is an accomplished writer and former editor of the Bucks County Courier Times daily newspaper. He’s lived in the county for more than 40 years. He and wife Mary Anne have written many stories for regional and national magazines. Both covered the Democratic and Republican national conventions of 1976 and the inauguration of President Jimmy Carter the following year. Together with daughter Genevieve and her family, they’ve shared many adventures getting to know the unique places and rich history of Bucks dating to the Lenni Lenape Indians and William Penn.

Carl is a graduate of the University of Florida in Gainesville. He’s the author of four books on submarine history published by the Naval Institute Press in Annapolis: Back from the Deep, Slade Cutter, The Galloping Ghost and Pushing the Limits. He’s also written many articles for the Naval Institute’s two magazines, Proceedings and Naval History. His many TV appearances include The History Channel’s series Silent Service and Man, Moment, and Machine. In 2007, he addressed STRATCOM, the strategic command of the nation’s nuclear arsenal based at Offutt Air Force Base in Omaha, Neb., as the special guest of Air Force Gen. Kevin P. Chilton, a decorated space shuttle pilot. Carl also moderated a two-day symposium on submarine warfare at the National Museum of the Pacific War in Fredericksburg, Texas, and discussed submarine history at the U.S. Naval War College in Newport, R.I.

Beyond his interest in naval history, he’s been a general assignment writer for Philadelphia, National Wildlife, Down East, Sierra, Pennsylvania and other magazines.

Since high school in Merced, Calif., Carl has pursued many outdoor adventures. He’s an experienced scuba diver who’s led pioneering explorations of Florida’s water-filled caverns and subterranean rivers, exceeding depths of 200 feet. As a member of the National Speleological Society, he’s teamed with others to explore uncharted caverns in California, Alabama, Tennessee and Georgia that required difficult rope work including repelling into 200-foot-deep underground chasms, then climbing back out. He’s also enjoyed mountain climbing in the Sierra Nevada and the Alps.