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Norton, Trevor. Stars Beneath the Sea: The Pioneers of Diving. Carroll & Graf. Jun. 2000. c.288p, illus. ISBN 0-7867-0750-X. $25.
As a serious scuba diver interested in diving's history, this reviewer enjoyed Stars Beneath the Sea. The biographical sketches of some of the lesser-known diving pioneers-including the first scientific diver, Henri Milne Edwards; father-and-son physiologists John and J.B.S. Haldane; Frederic Dumas, the colleague of Jacques Cousteau; and underwater archaeologist Peter Throckmorton-- added to her knowledge of deep-sea diving. However, the very informal, …