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Subject 1: (Interview). Subtitle: William F. Surgi, Jr. Timecode In: 00:00:04. Timecode out: 00:08:11. Notes: Carpentry. Subject 2: (Interview). Subtitle: Robert Ballard. Timecode In: 00:10:46. Timecode out: 00:54:12. Notes: Conversation; USS Yorktown search. Habitat: Marine, Ocean. Equipment Notes: Stereo=1; Dual-Channel Mono. Yorktown Log DAT #13 Bill Surgi in Carpenters shop 008 what I'm doing I'm making some little frames 013 BS scrounging around the ship I found some plexiglass to cover and some mahogany to make the frames of a medallion I'd been given when I attended the reunion of the Hiryu in 1993, and since H is one ship is in group we're looking for I reproduced it by rubbing it with aluminum foil so it looks like a duplicate but it's very fragile, so I have to make a hard case to put it in, so this is like a presentation case for the Japanese, they're not supposed to know, but they've been inquisitive, so I tell 'em I'm making a souvenir picture frame for their sweetheart. and we'll give one to Dr B and each of the japanese will get one, and on the back we'll put on, In search of, and the names of the ships and the date. 103 442 sandpapering pause sandpaper 'almost' 552 bangs it down a little bitty more, it's almost there boy its clsoe more elbow grease 702 there good fit! I knew it would work. (laffs) 709 819 distant ambiance on carpenter's shop, Surgi shuffling in bkgrnd. sandpapering (distant)958 11101 (BB 54 hours, starting now, available for work, 2 12 hr dives leaves you 36, yeah well, and I don't think we'll do all that here, so if we have a strong believable target, and possibly a second believable, we're outta here.1129 Don't, you want to dive, first? They don't want to. why not? that was last I heard.. Why care, I don' t know, have to revisit. Want to be able to fix on the transit. But I'd rather sit on Y and make it happen. 1202 CH if we had a bad dive on Y again? we'd sit there., I think the next dive is going to be marginal, but it might not be, so I want it to be on Y 1219, takes em 2 days to fix it if they break it? depends, probably not. The probability is some sub-system, that got damaged, not major. 1242 DM they are, by the way bottlenecked on Chief Swarm, bottlenecked on swarm, the only person who can do things. Not an issue now, but in a tight spot, can throw some more resources. Jay is working with them? CO they came in and he's working on their video cameras./ BB so we'll just go with it, don't have to make a decision now so we wont. Basically midnite now, six in the morning up there, right, no longer, Plenty of time, this will not take 24 hours. we've got I think we can be out of here in a day, which leaves 30 hours on sit at Y, that's alot, for one really good dive, or one bad one and another Id rather throw my hours in there. I want to see Y before I die. 1430 1448 BB that is a shadow, too. That is a shadow. that's a shadow! look at that dude. You don't think that's a hill, no hill there, Hmm. That's brand new, left lobe Look at that shadow. wow look at that shadow 1530 (bluegrass mzk) Sunday 5/10 2834 BB So, midnight tonight. The witching hour is there a full moon, I think it was a couple of night ago. We're working two targets and a possible third. are these the 3, no they're too big, it's these little guys, this one maybe, he's working this over. Okay, allright.2950 Swarm shows us the damage. almost all cameras out, along with much of the electronics that allows the vehicle to be remotely controlled working night and day to get as much capability back as possible. 3309 SW we also lost our navigation system, the NT-39's, so won't have a track to know where vehicle's at NCQ so when you get to the bottom, you won't know where you are? Basically. We know that we can only be about 400 feet away from ship, because t... (Notes truncated)
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- 22 Jun 2005 - Ben Brotman
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- 22 Jun 2005 - Ben Brotman
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- 22 Jun 2005 - Ben Brotman