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Subject: (Interview). Subtitle: Sylvia Earle. Timecode In: 00:33:14. Timecode out: 00:54:10. Notes: Submersibles; Benthic communities. Equipment Notes: Stereo=1; Decoded MS stereo; Neumann RSM 190 through Sonosax preamp into Sony TCDD8. NPR/NGS RADIO EXPEDITIONS
Show: DRY TORTUGAS
Log of DAT #: 7
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Date: July 2001
Kip Evans
Tim Bulman
Sylvia Earle
Steve Baumgartner
Sasha Lebaron
John Allan
ng = not good
ok= okay
g = good
vg = very good
0:15 Divers going off the boat...(cross-talk about flippers, boat ...)
1:14 Splash.
2:12 "This is a special day folks ..."
2:30 Am I clear? I'll be waiting for you in the water. Sylvia, I'll be in the water."
2:35 Air sounds ... "have you checked your air?"
2:52 "Never mind, you're not going in yet. Okay, Shelly's group" ...cross-talk and prep ambi...
Stopdown
4:32 Plane taking off from the boat's perspective ...
6: 11 Plane engine starts, takes off.
Stopdown
7:50 Kip Evans, documenting sustainable seas as photographer, pilot submersible, scuba diving, taught pilots photography course ...
8:52 Other than sand crabs, lots of little critters on the bottom, real good dive.
9:15 ng (very soft, loud bkgrnd) This is an alternative to anchoring. There's always something there, but there are always trade-offs ... AC: Is it within the preserve? KE: No, it's not. The story was the ships were anchoring on an area w/in the preserve, on the Banks, Tortugas Banks. And we didn't want them there. It's all coral, they were damaging the coral. We're talking huge anchors; these are freighters, tankers.
9:48 How much do they weigh? KE: upwards of 15,000 lbs. And that's just the anchor. Probably putting out 300 foot of chain, each link prob. weighs 40-50 pound. And every time that? chain, it's just like a giant lawnmower, it just mows that floor down.
10:12 They anchor there two reasons, first it's shallow and they don't have to put out much chain, and the second reason is that they can fish. That's why they want to anchor there, and they always hung out and waited until they got orders from their home port, and they would tell them to go to the Caribbean or where ever. So the deal was basically that we took that off and made it a no anchoring zone, but we had to give them something. So we picked two areas. And the one dive that we did today, the other dive we did today of the two areas I picked. We were really hoping that we wouldn't find anything, and sure enough.
11 :02 I did see a school of?? those big giant fish, those were down there .. might have been scad ... I saw a huge school. .. pod of dolphins, 8-10 of them come down and just play around the sub, and hit me with the sonar, trying to figure out what I was ... I couldn't hear you. It was so loud, just bip-bip-bip-bip ... They were warning me, I'd hear that sound, and I'd point the camera up, and sure enough, in a few seconds they would be there.
12:33
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- 8 Dec 2009 - Ben Brotman
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- 7 Dec 2009 - Ben Brotman
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- 8 Dec 2009 - Ben Brotman