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Subject 1: (Interview). Subtitle: Dwight Coleman, Dale Ridder. Timecode In: 00:00:30. Timecode out: 00:17:44. Notes: Underwater archaeology; Marine weapons and explosives; PT-109. Subject 2: (Interview). Subtitle: Robert Ballard. Timecode In: 00:27:29. Timecode out: 00:50:49. Notes: Underwater archaeology; PT-109. Equipment Notes: Two-Track Mono; Electrovoice RE50 Dynamic Omni Microphone. Show: Ballard Log of DAT #: 2 Engineer: Neal Conan Date: May 23, 2002 BB = Bob Ballard D = Dwight Coleman DR = Dale Ridder NC = Neal Conan :06 FX - Velcro? :07 - :31 Ambi.. people talking and a sonar barely audible :31 NC Whatcha got there? :33 D Not sure, it's a very hard object, it certainly looks manmade, non-natural. It's sitting out all by itself, not amongst any geological features that it might be a part of.. so I would say it's definitely a man-made item. It's about 9 meters by 6 meters in size, so according to our expert here, it may be a Japanese landing barge, something like that. :55 DR That would be close to what you would say for a small Japanese landing barge.. it a little bit wider but it may also be a part of it that survived by the bottom - see they were part metal and part wood.. so the amount that would survive depends on how the wood survives.. but it looks like it might be. I don't know if we'll go down and take a video of it, but it looks that way. I 'll have to start digging out my reference stuff and start checking on it. 1:26 D it could be the battle section of a pt boat 1:28 Chuckling amongst present crew. This, to me, should be used to build suspense. I picture the show being half documentary (about JFK's experience in the navy, pt 109 - but that might not be "Radio Expeditions" stuff), that breaks in between segments about bob ballard and his search for PT 109. This would be one of the earlier segments, that shows a detective on the trail of elusive clues on his search of the mother of all mysteries. Material in DAT 11 would be used as near-closing stuff - the declarations "this is it, this is it" would gain potency when the listener can feel how much effort had to go into this extremely tedious search. Especially with the story leaking/breaking, the mere discovery just wouldn't be enough. That's enough of my digression, back to the DAT. 1:30 Not if it's sliced the way I think it is. 1:34 NC That's a pretty detailed picture 1:36 Yes. 1:38 D It is, still, the acoustics play tricks on your eyes. So you really have to get the visual, the optical image of it to verify it. 1:46 NC after doing this for a while you learn not to get too excited? 1:50 D a little bit, yeah, although we haven't seen too many promising targets, so this is actually, really the first good one that we have. - 2:09 Mumbling 2:09 D um.. why don't we just levae it, see where it steadies out. I don't know if he's speeding up or not. 2:23 D always happens, once you start hauling in, the bottom starts dropping off on ya¿ Chuckles 2:28 The law of nature¿ 2:31 What is this material? 2:33 D it's an echo off the surface. So it's a.. it pretty much follows just the flat¿ 2:45 it's a wave pocket. 2:46 D basically. But we're looking at several multiples of it because we're so deep, it's pretty far away but it's getting in there¿. - 3:09 Ambi..mumbling, bustling¿ sonar lightly beeping. 3:09 D do you wanna go down another 10 meters? 3:17 FX - sounds like paper being ripped, or tape being taken off of a box. 3:20 D do you see what our layback is cathy from back there? FX-rumbling noise, like a helicopter 3:24 C layback 1-9-7 3:27 D 1-9-7¿ 3:56 FX - a drill, several spurts 4:01 BB finished the turn now? 4:03 D he hasn't started it yet, no. We've got about another.. 400 meters. - 4:26 just ... (Notes truncated)
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