Peter Hunt was born in New York and spent six years of his childhood in Athens, Greece where he started diving in 1978. During high school and college, Peter worked on several wreck diving boats based out of New York, including the famous Wahoo, from which he made 13 dives on the Andrea Doria in 1983 and 1984. Peter graduated with a history degree from Brown University in 1985 before joining the Navy and training as an A-6 Intruder attack pilot. During his Naval service, he completed three aircraft carrier deployments to the Persian Gulf, Indian Ocean, and Western Pacific over the course of ten years of active duty. His military awards include the Distinguished Flying Cross and three Air Medals for combat action during Operation Desert Storm. After leaving the Navy, Hunt worked as a United Airlines pilot until being diagnosed with Parkinson’s Disease in 2005 at age 43. That is when he began writing in earnest. The father of two adult children, Hunt holds a Masters in Strategic Planning for Critical Infrastructure from the University of Washington and lives with his wife on Whidbey Island, Washington.
