Seven-Tenths: Love, Piracy, and Science at Sea

An engineer whose life is in shambles meets a blind oceanographer who spends her life at sea. In this memoir of their courtship, David Fisichella writes of science, love, adventure, and danger on the ocean. He survives heavy weather, an equator crossing, and a pirate attack off the coast of Somalia. He learns how scientists study ocean physics and why their research is so important, how people live for months on a crowded boat, and what it means to be working for, and dating, the chief scientist. Told with humor, gritty details, and a refreshing sense of wonder about our oceans.

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Seven-Tenths: Love, Piracy, and Science at Sea

An engineer whose life is in shambles meets a blind oceanographer who spends her life at sea. In this memoir of their courtship, David Fisichella writes of science, love, adventure, and danger on the ocean. He survives heavy weather, an equator crossing, and a pirate attack off the coast of Somalia. He learns how scientists study ocean physics and why their research is so important, how people live for months on a crowded boat, and what it means to be working for, and dating, the chief scientist. Told with humor, gritty details, and a refreshing sense of wonder about our oceans.

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Seven-Tenths: Love, Piracy, and Science at Sea

Seven-Tenths: Love, Piracy, and Science at Sea

by David Fisichella
Seven-Tenths: Love, Piracy, and Science at Sea

Seven-Tenths: Love, Piracy, and Science at Sea

by David Fisichella

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Overview

An engineer whose life is in shambles meets a blind oceanographer who spends her life at sea. In this memoir of their courtship, David Fisichella writes of science, love, adventure, and danger on the ocean. He survives heavy weather, an equator crossing, and a pirate attack off the coast of Somalia. He learns how scientists study ocean physics and why their research is so important, how people live for months on a crowded boat, and what it means to be working for, and dating, the chief scientist. Told with humor, gritty details, and a refreshing sense of wonder about our oceans.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781935248101
Publisher: Leapfrog Press
Publication date: 04/01/2010
Series: LeapSci
Pages: 232
Product dimensions: 5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Fisichella manages shipboard scientific services at Woods Hole Oceanographic. Formerly an aerospace engineer, he turned to providing adaptive technology to the blind. When his first marriage collapsed, he went to sea on a whim with a scientist suffering from macular degeneration. David teaches sailing and skiing to the blind, and sails around New England with his wife and seven-year-old daughter.

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