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Subject 1: (Interview). Subtitle: Bruce Cowden, Erv Garrison. Timecode In: 00:02:29. Timecode out: 00:47:03. Notes: Archaeological diving. Subject 2: (Sound Effects). Subtitle: Scuba diving. Timecode In: 00:31:47. Timecode out: 00:32:33. Habitat: Marine, Ocean. Equipment Notes: Stereo=1; Dual-Channel Mono. NPR/NGS RADIO EXPEDITIONS GRAY'S REEF LOG DAT#5 BC=Bruce Cowdin EG=Erv Garrison On board, about to begin dive O0:2:25 ** FX Breathing [just before diving] 02:43 BC: I'm staying on this side of the line EG: I'll be on the far side of the line. 02:50 Be: Somebody want to give me some slack on this. Cause I'm going to slip into the water....And cool off for a Minute because it's very uncomfortable. Set to go, you're clear 3:12 Into water and down EG: Dana, you need to hand Bruce the grid. EG -How :you doin' down there? BC: I'm doing pretty good 3:41 FX Breathing as go down 4:15 C : slate from above [First archaeological dive of the day] 4:20 -5:46 * Ambi: Good breathing as dive down with little talk 6:26 EG: *OK, Let's go to work 6:57 BC: *Uhh. nice and murky down here 6:59 EG: *yep, lots of stuff in the water 7:21 Be: My ears are ok, About 30 feet no\", 7:45 Be: Starting to see the bottom now EG: Bottom coming up Be: I think I'm just going to go down EG: I'll take the tape and run it out on the bearing you give me. 8:09 BC: OK, My depth gauge is showing 55 feet on the bottom. Hook your tape in here, and I'll give you a bearing off it when you go out and stretch it to the distance you want CT: You guys are max on .:your line. we're at the end of the line...at the anchor'//working back towards the boat. [conversation re. laying out tape. Erv, come left, BC: left a little bit more.... 10:30 BC: *There's a little back sea bass following me around. Oh, look at that, a little pink porgy! 11:22 EG: "We're marked at 31 feet. 12:38 -13:38 EG: what we did was we took the tape and the grid down to the anchor, then we attached the tape, regular carpenter measuring tape, and unreeled it for 51' out on a (?] direction -which Bruce says is due east then we took this one meter PVC grid and we swam it out to a place all along the patch reefs which are just outcrops covered with sponges and invertebrates, and what Bruce is doing now is fanning away the sediment within the grid square looking for fossils. 13:46: BC: What I've got is a little limestone area.... see fossil shell stuff in there, nothin real exciting in this spot. It's like finding that needle in a haystack. Just got to go down there and probe around and knock away the sediment, every little tiny piece, kind of like forensic guy on TV, might be a little something in there that tells you a story, if investigate further might be something good there. Just looking for telltale signs ..... . C]: Any biologicals .... corals, sponges? 15:10 BC: Oh, all around me. As soon as I start stirring up this stuff down here, get whole bunch [describes] very pretty down here. Stirring up a lot of excitement. Letting loose a lot of animals, fish feeding on them. I think everybody's having a good time today. [more] Here's Some interesting stuff here -coral -hard coral would usually find on a tropical reef. [finds debris] 17:40 -EG: ***I'm Erv Garrison from University of Georgia. We're speaking from the seafloor at Grays Reef NMS. It's 1:20 in the afternoon. we're at a depth of 58 feet, water temperature is about 75 degrees, visibility is not the greatest today, but we have quite a collection of fish ...... considering the exploratory excavations we're caring out here, [18:23] so it's not all in all the worst place to be. 18:42 ***BC: Hi, everybody, I'm Bruce Cowdin, I'm sixty feet on the bottom of the ocean out here at Gray's Reef NMS. And it's a very pretty day. Murky, lot's of fish. stirr... (Notes truncated)
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- 3 Nov 2008 - Ben Brotman
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- 3 Nov 2008 - Ben Brotman
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- 3 Nov 2008 - Ben Brotman