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Subject 1: (Environmental Recording). Subtitle: Underwater habitat ambi. Timecode In: 00:00:04. Timecode out: 00:58:22. Subject 2: (Interview). Subtitle: Alfaro, Brooke, Patterson, Pile, Styron. Timecode In: 00:00:04. Timecode out: 00:58:22. Notes: Andrea Alfaro, Sandra Brooke, Mark Patterson, Adele Pile, Jay Styron; Aquarius underwater habitat; Coral reefs; Sponges. Habitat: Marine, Ocean. Equipment Notes: Stereo=1; Stereo. NPR/NGS Radio Expeditions Bahamas/Key Largo DAT #7 5/25-29/1995 Aquarius 5/29 DAT "Interviews", etc. Key Largo AA = Andrea Alfaro SB = Sandra Brooke MP = Mark Patterson AP = Adele Pile JS = Jay Styron GS = Greg Smith 0:00 mic checks 1:20 (arrivals...various splashes) 2:10 gs: (splash) who's who? jay styron...mark patterson: welcome to 20 thousand mm under the sea. 2:30 js: put your wet stuff there...shower off...au natural...kep wet stuff in this end of the habitat...then we'll move on into the entry lock... 3:10 mp: every time we get a pot we fill it up with dead towels and garbage and send it to the surface. gs: and a pot is? mp: modified paint can. hello andrea. (mp and andrea discuss experiment) ...right now NPR is here to do an interview, then they want to come back later and do it with everybody, so we're going to talk with them... gs and ap say hellos. then, ...this is great... mp: this is the main lock right here...hang out when not in water...we fight for seat by the portal... gs: i see a diver out there now... mp: one of the NOAA people...aquanauts wear twin tanks, because you can't go to the surface after you're down here. 6:40 gs: let's start with a description.. i came up underneath onto the wet porch... dg: but you don't want to sit up quickly in the middle ofthe night... 8:35 gs: it's really one long tube...long cylinder... (dimensions) 9:20 gs: so yo are six people here? mp: yes, five scientists and jay the NOAA person... gs: (handgunmagazine... "just in case... ) mp: and we have musci to relax, and communication with topside...actually on camera right now... gs: can you get NPR down here? mp: we've tried... rush limbaugh... ("Aquarius" bit of mx in bg) (greg gets notebook.) (chuck sets up) (levels) (signs releases) 13:10 ap: did you feel that? we feel the surge in the waves ....depth meter there...we've been down here so long, hurts your ears... like airplane ride... 14:00 gs: tell us who you are and what you're responsible for... mp: id.. references adele... ap: id 15:05 gs: we just popped down for the interview, we can only stay for limited time...tell us how long you've been here. ap: since thursday. gs: stay for how long? ap: up to 14, normal 10. at least 6 hours a day in the water... 16:10 gs: and when you're in the water, what're you doing? mp: advantage of the habitat, our bodies have absorbed all the nitrogen w're going to absorb. so we can put in a full working day in this environment, just like spending a full day in the rain forest. we can acomplish in 5 days using saturation diving what would take a month surface diving. a neat tool for accomplishing alot of science in a compressed amount of time...only working habitat in the world to do this sort of research. 17:40 gs: what sort of research adele? ap: studying how sponges are affecting coral reefs...what role they play in the ecosystem. sponges are found everywhere, in all ecosystems...can process water...capability to filter bacteria-sized particles. 19:00 gs: here off coast of key largo...apply results to reefs around the world? ap: yes...maine, russia. not just with sponges, but with other animals as well... 20:10 gs: the reason that you're down here is that you can spend longer studying the sponges? mp: yes ...part of the reason we're saturating is that you can do a different sort of diving..... (Notes truncated)
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- 13 May 2005 - Ben Brotman
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- 13 May 2005 - Ben Brotman
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- 13 May 2005 - Ben Brotman