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memories are of his dad
taking him to the indoor baths
on Sundays. ‘There were bad
news stories when I grew up,’
he says, ‘about sewage and
tall tales about people
contracting things.’ But he
stresses that maritime law has
changed a lot, and now
passing passenger ships and
tugs can pull up at the end of
the pier and their sewage is
pumped to the shore, not
dumped into the sea. The