
A vessel to explore vest-pocket science
"Just about every professional mariner dreams of having his or her own marine business, a small inter-island freighter, say, or an old schooner for hire on the New England or the Northwest coast. For Eric Smith, 41, whose background includes running ship-assist tugs in his hometown of Key West, Fla., and working as a commercial diver on numerous high-profile archaeological explorations, the dream was to find a boat he could use as a scientific research platform..."
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