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Weekends with Yankee
Underwater Adventures
Season 9
Episode 904
This week, host Richard Wiese meets the scientists at Cape Cod’s Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution to learn about the deep-sea research submersible, the Alvin. He also joins the Old Ladies Against Underwater Garbage on a clean-up mission of Cape ponds. Host and Yankee senior editor Amy Traverso meets up with chef Michael Serpa to explore the clam shacks of Massachusetts’s North Shore by bike.
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