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Article: The undersea world of Trevor Norton.(Underwater to Get Out of the Rain a Love Affair with the Sea)(Brief article)(Book review)
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- National Fisherman
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- May 1, 2006
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Underwater to Get Out of the Rain A Love Affair with the Sea By Trevor Norton Da Capo Press, 2006 Hardcover, 400 pp., $25 www.dacapopress.com
Today, he's a professor of marine biology at the University of Liverpool. But as a wee lad, Trevor Norton determined that "the world was seven-tenths salty water and so was I, and the chemical composition of my blood was almost identical to that of seawater. The ocean was truly in nay veins and briefly, when still in the womb, I even had gill slits."
Thus began a lifelong love affair with the sea that turned him from the worst boy in school, in his ...