Yvonne comes from the land of baseball (Cooperstown N.Y.) and resides in Jupiter, Florida.

Being a world traveler, undersea explorer, and part owner of a treasure ship that is still being recovered today, she writes about a popular niche of history. Her readers always long to hear more of “the golden age of piracy,” but from the past to the present. Through her past culinary experience as a prep cook, she has entertained patrons and guests aboard her and her husband Captain Dominic Addario’s research vessels.

She studied to be an art educator and athletic coach, and earned an Associates Degree in Fine Arts and a Bachelor of Science Degree in Visual Arts from the University of New Paltz, NY.

Yvonne Addario is a member of the PADI Diving Society, Sunken Treasure Literature Club, Backroom Writers Group, Florida's Publishers Association and an accomplished writer for her books on undersea adventures. She is also a director of a computer graphics and web design company One site example she has created and is related to her field of experience is http://jupitercoins.com.  In turn, her talents turned to publishing and helping unknown authors discover their dream of publishing become a reality.

She has published Diving for Sunken Treasure: Excerpts from the Jupiter Wreck Trilogy for the cruise-ship industry, where her husband and she are invited as “Enrichment Speakers” aboard Royal Caribbean, Celebrity and Regency cruise lines. As well as publishing her husbands book, A Guide to Responsible Undersea Exploration which is due to release, fall 2010.

She has written and published Treasure Diving with Captain Dom and it is available through  Barnes and Noble, Borders , Books- A- Million, many independent book/nautical sellers and libraries across the United Sates. She also writes about her shipwreck for newsletters, Web-based businesses, mailings, and newspaper and magazine articles.

She is presently working on 12 other books stemming from the “Parties with the Pirates” book, each related to party entertaining and adventures in travel with the captain, books meant for readers from adults to children.

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