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Subject: (Interview). Subtitle: Paul Donaldson. Timecode In: 00:30:54. Timecode out: 00:48:19. Notes: Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary; ROV (Remotely Operated Vehicle). Equipment Notes: Stereo=1; Decoded MS stereo; Sennheiser MKH40 Cardioid Mid Mic and MKH30 Bidirectional Side Mic through Sonosax Preamp into Sony TCD3. NPRINGS RADIO EXPEDITIONS Stellwagen Bank NMS DAT 1 reporter: Anthony Brooks Brad Barr (BB) Bob Wallace (Bob) Peter J. Auster (PA) Paul Donaldson (Paul) Anthony Brooks (TB) pair Sennheiser MKH 30s/MKH 40s 1:06 ambi: transfer of the ship 1:27 -"all forward now" 1 :35 -"Steve, you want a line on the stem?" "Yeah. We are going to need a line on the stem also ... hope they can throw us a line. Flies are here." 1 : 46 ambi -engine -low rumbling (the following is on and of mike -not great, but possibly helpful to set up scene) 2:06 "Throw the line over! This is as close as we are going to get." (Steve?) "We got you!" "Just watch that rai1. Hold on until we get it nice and steady here." "hey -give me a little slack Pau1." MORE TALK. ... arranging plans for getting picked up. 3: 15 Hello Peter! 3: 17 Welcome aboard! 3: 19 How do you do? Anthony Brooks. TB -You are? 3 :24 PA -Peter Auster. More talk between people on board 3 :54 ? -This is where we are going to finish up where we are working this afternoon.... More talk amongst people on board -setting up for day and for pick up 4:24 ? (Brad?) what I thought about doing (first part of this cut oft) was diving right where we are now and then moving up to the site where we surveyed the sets (?) 4:42 ? -"This is 10 miles north here" "Yeah." "It is supposed to be nice today -yeah, weather is supposed to get better." 4:58 Brad (?) -it is just that ?? we are going to have to recover the ROV and everything.. ??? 5:09 Brad -we were out here and they were bubble feeding all over the place yesterday afternoon. TB -who is they? Whales? Brad -yeah, whales. Humpbacks, yeah. 5:25 ? -this ROV working ok? 5:27 Brad -yeah. Yeah. 5 :29 -TB -this is it here? Brad -yup. This is the Phantom S-2 ROY. It's got video cameras (some talking in bg -"morning!" ... ) a pair of lasers for scaling. 2 35 millimeter cameras for high resolution still imagery. Horizontal, frontal thrusters obviously for maneuvering . 5: 51 TB -so this sends back video images from the bottom of the ocean. That is great. BB (BRAD BAR) -This will work under a thousand feet, although we are working in considerably shallower area here at Stellwagen Bank. 6:02 TB -so pressure never gets -water pressure never effects any of this? 6:06 BB -no, this is all good all of the housings. Inside of the housings is one atmosphere ... TB -looks sort of like the Martian rover that they just landed on Mars -except a little more complicated! 6:22 BB -well we are talking to it through a hard wire. They are talking to through however many millions miles space acoustically. TB -138 million miles -something like that. 6:33 ? -you don't have to wait 8 mins for this . TB -it is great! 6:48 TB (?) -it's a quite a vessel. (off mike) .... Talk amongst crew -some off mike 8:20 BB -why don't we go up there and do that dive this morning ... and then we will do the other one -we will come back here ... hey Steve? (STEVE -yeah -) let's meet back here this afternoon at around -what's the latest you want to leave here to get back in? 8:44 ? -well from here 5:00 I can leave 5:00 no problem. BB -well ok let's do that ?? -This position? BB -yeah ?? -I'll be on the eel phone on ?? BB -ok. 9:03 -TB -thanks for the ride Steve more talk amongst crew intro of people on board -done very quickly -Chuck Thompson, Les Watling, Bob Wallace 9:50 -ambi -boat ... (Notes truncated)
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- 15 Sep 2009 - Ben Brotman
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- 15 Sep 2009 - Ben Brotman
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- 15 Sep 2009 - Ben Brotman