Dan was born in a fishing boat five hundred metres from the shore near Scarbrough, England; his mother's water broke as she pulled lobster pots on board. Later that day, his parents arrived home to realise they had left Dan amongst the still-writhing catch and brought back a rare orange lobster by mistake (lobsters are usually blue and turn orange only after cooking - about one in a million are orange, I think I saw that on Blue Peter or something).