Nahant Oceanological Society

The Nahant Oceanological Society is a location appearing in Fallout 4.

Layout
This location consists of two buildings; a main building for the society with reception and offices, and a separate laboratory to the south. The society building has two entrance doors, one to the front (west) and one to the rear.

Inside the house there are two floors, with two Mr. Handy robots employed as "Oceanological instructor" that may list off random facts about marine life. A door on the second floor of the house can be unlocked with Casey's key (which is found in a toolbox in the cabin of the wrecked boat just southeast of the house, along a small spit), behind which is a steamer trunk and wall safe (Advanced). To the rear exterior is a small shed on the decking with a locked door (Novice), with some minor loot inside.

The entrance door to the concrete constructed laboratory opens onto a catwalk level, which has a chemistry station, a locked (Master) steamer trunk and a ramp leading to the lower level. Downstairs is a power armor station, a safe (Expert, which can be unlocked by the terminal next to it), and a locked first aid box (Novice) Several ammo boxes can also be found around the laboratory. A steel stairway on the west side wraps around a circular pool (empty) and leads up to the flat roof which offers a good sniping position of the numerous mirelurks and nests on the coastal fringe.

Beware of the larger barnacles on the external walls to the ocean side which spray a radioactive cloud if you pass too close.

Notable loot

 * A Vault-Tec lunchbox can be found in the kitchen inside the house.
 * Wasteland Survival Guide issue #6 can be found in the room with a weapons workbench inside the house, on a desk near a typewriter and a TV.
 * Casey's key - found in a toolbox on a semi sunken boat off the coast near Nahant Oceanological Society. Opens door to Casey's office in the Society.
 * Bottle message - X marks the spot - on a tiny sand island with picket fencing, just a few paces west of the half-sunken boat.

Appearances
The Nahant Oceanological Society only appears in Fallout 4.

Behind the scenes

 * The Nahant Oceanological Society is likely based on the real world Northeastern University Marine Science Center as both are located on the eastern tip of Nahant. The name suggests it may also be partially inspired by the much larger Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, although this is one hundred miles south of Nahant, and not part of the Fallout 4 game map.
 * Interestingly, the real world Marine Science Center is situated on land which housed a Nike-Ajax missile battery during the Cold War, deployed to defend the Boston area against nuclear attack by Soviet bombers.

Bugs

 * The two doors leading into the house, as well as the shed door, may not be able to be interacted with, making the Wasteland Survival Guide inaccessible. Saving, quitting and restarting the game may resolve this issue.
 * There may be a severe frame rate drop when looking in certain directions in the laboratory.
 * The expert locked safe downstairs in the lab building can be re-locked via the adjacent computer, then unlocked an unlimited number of times for the experience points.
 * The Nuka Cola machine on the ground floor of the house may glitch, causing the bottles to be lodged behind the machine. Due to the refrigerator on the right, it may make the bottles nearly impossible to access without dragging thinner items such as forks or mops to move them closer or else explosives.

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