Woods Hole is known as a famous scientific community, containing important private institutions like the Oceanographic and the MBL, as well as public NOAA, USGS, and Coast Guard. The town is located where there is the only deep water harbor on the Cape and where the fishing is good.
But I find it equally important that Woods Hole is a fishing village, a place with many talented carpenters and boat builders and a place where instrumentation, gadgetry, and craftsmanship are valued and available. I went to a seminar at the Oceanographic where they bragged about how other people would develop "marine" technologies and then be forced to come to the Oceanographic to find people who knew how to make underwater electrical connectors. The 'craftsman' community in Woods Hole is as intense as the scientific one.
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