He had changed it at the age of seventeen and at the specific moment that witnessed the beginning of his career—when he saw Dan Cody's yacht drop anchor over the most insidious flat on Lake Superior.
In the late fifteenth century, the explorer John Cabot found cod in incredible numbers on the eastern banks of North America, shallow areas of water popular with bottom-feeding fish like cod.
Reared in Charleston, he knew every inlet, creek, shoal and rock of the Carolina coast near that port, and he was equally at home in the waters around Wilmington.
In another field experiment, a floating garden was installed above a sand bank, to explore if the roots could help stabilize already accumulated sand, and collect more.