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Subject: (Interview). Subtitle: David Doubilet, Wes Skiles. Timecode In: 00:00:04. Timecode out: 01:50:41. Notes: Ginnie Springs, Florida. Habitat: Cave. Equipment Notes: Stereo=1; Split track. David Doubilet and Wes Skiles Underwater Conversation Ginnie Springs, FL August 5, 1993 DAT #5 DD: .. flecks on the surface. A pool of sand against the mirror smooth surface of the spring. The water color is a very dark very clear blue. And the sun comes through the water directly illuminating and back lighting the green hydrilla weed. Which coats the entrance to the spring like a beard. VOICE: David? DD: Yes? VOICE: Is Margie in the water with you? DD: Uh, Margie? Yes. There is a small uh school of bluegill f- VOICE: ...turn it on won't be pointing at any¬thing...watch the level at which you are speaking, please...Okay Wes if you'll talk. ws: okay. VOICE: Okay you'll want to top the level of your voice a little bit... WS: I guess I just have a uh strong voice.... DD: strong smell, too. VOICE: Okay you're all just balancing really nicely now thank you. WS: We may go through a couple of little phases here cause...and I'm too hot to wear the hood right now. Like I'm real hot so I'm gonna wear it without for awhile....affects the audio...Well this is exhalation here. Now that's leaking I'll stop talking and you can hear the leak. I'm just gonna try to go down and cool down and maybe put the hood back on. DD: Well there you are. WS: Ah yes here I am...Underweight. I have a new suit on and floating like a cork. DD: Well come on in the water's fine. WS: I thought about shaving my beard off this morning. DD: Nahh. Don't do it. WS: Bu~ I didn't do it. Um, Chuck if you could ask Pete to bring me a drop weight somewhere around uh five to ten pounds. DD: The water in the cave is coming out of two small entrances. The entrances are about five feet high, three feet wide. It pours out of Ginny springs into this little arena this little pool with a white sandy bottom. You can lie in the bottom here... WS: ...got any bigger? Yeah gimme Ten. DD: It's only about fifteen feet deep and look through the flat mirror like surface into the air. Where the oaks and the tree branch over this a uh, a spring. And watch the sun goes behind the clouds and the and the light goes with gray to blue. And blue gray and back again. It's a kind of pallet of interesting blues and greens, the hydrilla weed growing at the edge of the spring growing at the entrances and the trees arching over the top of the spring. I'm gonna go into the cave for a minute to take a look and then I'll wait for Wes to come back I'll come right back out of the cave. I don't think the HMI light is on. I'll go in a ~ little bit farther and check but it looks like it's off. VOICE: The HMI is off? DD: The HMI no the HMI is on, my mistake. Your error. VOICE: Okay bum we're ready so if you can um... DD: I'm gonna come out of the cave now. Just wanna check if my air is fully on. Good. WS: Okay well that didn't work. After all that....side of the hood. Yeah. DD: Hey, Wes. WS: Yeah. DD: How close are you to coming in? WS: I'm ready. DD: Okay. We're never gonna make a whole half-hour down here this mask is a killer. It's trying to circum¬cise my nose. VOICE: Okay we are we are recording. DD: Okay. Let's go. Okay. Right now Wesley's swimming along the surface. He's dumping his buoyancy com¬pensator. And coming down toward me. He's dis¬appearing into the entrance to Ginny spring. Like the proverbial White Rabbit going down a hole into Wonderland. The only difference is he's trailed by a long orange line which is his communication um¬bilical. His cord to the surface. WS: Why don't you come on in and join me? DD: Okay I'm coming in right now. This is a kind of an astounding situation for both of us. Because all the years underwater we've n... (Notes truncated)
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