Gary
Fabian
Gary
Fabian is an amateur maritime historian and shipwreck
researcher. Gary has become accomplished in multibeam and
side scan sonar analysis, archival research, and GIS
mapping. For the past decade Gary has been a student
of multibeam sonar analysis as it applies to locating
aircraft and shipwrecks lost at sea. He was responsible for
successfully locating two of Southern California’s
most elusive wrecks: German U-boat UB88 off Long Beach,
and the Convair B-36 bomber off San
Diego. He also pinpointed the locations of two
additional military aircraft missing since the
1950’s: an Air Force T-33 Shooting Star and a
Navy F4U Corsair fighter plane.
Gary’s most recent work led to the discovery of two
Navy warships expended as targets for weapons testing at
San Clemente Island in the 1970’s: USS VAMMEN and USS HOPEWELL. He has
done multibeam analysis and mapping for the California
Ships to Reefs program, and consulted in the search for
the lost hydrogen bomb off of Tybee Island, Georgia.
Gary is the webmaster for www.ub88.org and www.sundiver.net. He lives with his
wife and daughter near Austin, TX.