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Norine Rouse
One of the First Female Dive Instructors
Died at age of 80
Norine Rouse, who for nearly three decades guided dives from her
Palm Beach Florida Norine Rouse Scuba Club, has died at the age
of 80. In 1966, Rouse moved to Freeport, Bahamas with $125 she
had won on a television game show and became one of the world's
first women diving instructors following female pioneers such as
Dottie Frazier, Barbara Allen, Zale Parry, Lynn Youst, and Karen
Strauss. Later, she was one of a handful of people licensed by
the state of Florida to swim with sea turtles and would
steadfastly record and photograph their behavior for scientists.
From the 1970s to the 1990s, she tracked the annual return of
two loggerhead turtles to the same local reefs. When Robert the
turtle returned each Christmas, Rouse would don her trademark
yellow wet suit and take kitchen scrubbies out to clean him.
Edited from the Palm Beach Post with information supplied by Dr.
Sam Miller |
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