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- ↑ "Submersion in summer program yields results", St. Louis Post-Dispatch , Oct 3, 1994.
- ↑ "In class with sharks: something fishy for sixth graders out of school", Los Angeles Daily News , January 31, 2005, archived from the original on 2016-01-27.
- ↑ "Entry in Marine, Coastal, and Watershed Resource Directory". coastal.ca.gov. California Coastal Commission. Archived from the original on 2007-04-27. Retrieved 2011-02-05.
