It sounds like a bad science fiction movie: a slime from outer space has reached the earth. It spreads underwater across the harbors and bays of a small Island community and eventually throughout the East Coast. The world’s top scientists gather to study and discuss the problem..

What it sounds like is nearly true in the waters along the eastern seaboard, only in this case the slime is believed to come from the Sea of Japan.

Understanding the relationships between the ocean and air is essential if weather forecasting in the future is to be more precise. Most living on Martha's Vineyard know the ocean keeps the Island cooler when the mainland is suffering in the dog days of July, and warmer in the winter when the temperature inland is bitter cold. But scientists can't be precise about why.

Construction crews are almost done erecting a large research tower
nearly two miles south of the Vineyard.

For weeks, a well-lighted barge and tugboat have been involved in a
large-scale project due south of Edgartown Great Pond. They've
been assembling what will be an all-season steel tower loaded with
instruments that will collect weather and ocean data. The tower will
rise 68 feet above sea level when it is finished at the end of this
week.

“Cap’n” Seth Wakeman Jr. of Menemsha reports that representatives of the Oceanographic Institution at Woods Hole got “some of the best whale pictures ever taken,” during a recent visit to the Island. In addition to taking still and movie shots, the scientists also had excellent luck in recording the sounds of the whales which have been seen off Menemsha Bight and Gay Head in recent weeks.