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The Marine Science Center is no Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, but it's got a decent vehicular budget. Ray, Jhalak, and a team of cephalopod scientists (that is, scientists who study cephalopods- given Ray's background it's important to draw these distinctions early on) are aboard the research vessel Velasco, headed out to the ocean floor drop-off just beyond Yaquina Head.

Ray is probably driving the other scientists crazy, as he's trying to describe all their equipment to Jhalak.