Down to the sea

Physical oceanography has been, until recently, the most unsuccessful of the geophysical sciences in enlisting the aid of physicists. Laboratory‐trained, they have preferred to remain in their laboratories rather than set up their instruments in as unfavorable an environment as a small vessel. This has been exasperating to that small group of scientists having a burning desire to understand the physical aspects of the earth and its surrounding atmosphere.

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