Mission at Stellwagen

Walter Jaspers bolted up as if he’d been waiting…“We’re going to have a close encounter at sea, Ethan. A million years coming and I mean to have it before I’m finished.” His voice was measured, his intensity intoxicating…“There’s something out there.” Jaspers’ eyes burned into his. In that summer of 1988, in the swirling waters of Stellwagen Bank off Cape Cod, Walter Jaspers had everything he could want. His whales were there, and the best marine mammal research team in the world was there, too—he had everything, that is, but time.