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Subject: (Interview). Subtitle: Robert Ballard, see notes. Timecode In: 00:01:45. Timecode out: 01:02:26. Notes: Also in recording is Dwight Coleman and Dale Ridder; Underwater Archaeology; PT-109. Equipment Notes: Two-Track Mono; Electrovoice RE50 Dynamic Omni Microphone. Show: Ballard (PT 109) Log of DAT #: 10 Engineer: Date: May 23, 2002 BB = Bob Ballard Dw = Dwight Coleman DR = Dale Ridder NC = Neal Conan :01 voices jumbled we come in on a big sand dune¿ a sand dune migrating current, sticking out of the sand¿ Dave said Cathy can't record here¿ She only has two tapes to do, we're not even on site yet Etc., etc. Get in the water, there's always a million reasons not to get in the water 1:27 FX - Velcro 1:45 BB so anyway we have these big sand dunes, okay? And down in the crest of a sand dune, we have two long, long tubes, that the skipper of 105, that you met, Richard, said those are torpedo launchers. So we went down and we set little¿ and we said well how big are they? And we went down and parked little Herc. On it, and they're two feet.. which is the size of these guys 2:20 FX - pen tapping on something metal so now we want Dale to look at them, plus we found this destroyer, and we filmed all of it's guns last night. 2:32 NC were there any other pt boats lost in this area? 2:35 BB nope, and you don't lose.. you can lose torpedoes but you can't lose torpedo launchers ..so we have what appear to be two torpedo launchers, but I want an expert to tell me what I'm looking at.. the captain of the pt boat, that's pretty good, but that's Dale's strength, weapon systems. So¿ we're going to set him up on the thing and have him take a peek, and give us his opinion. But it's the only target. That's it! if that isn't it, there's nothing else there. 3:11 What's (??) 3:12 BB this is about 370 m? what is that? 350? Pretty much the same once you get down into ¿ 3:25 what does it look like? 3:27 BB well it's a.. you wanna go to the destroyer? It's a jackknifed destroyer.. the destroyer is sitting upright, and it's bow is jackknifed, broken off, and the bow is lying on it's port side. And you see guns here, the forward.. that's the other one, and here you have all it's anti-aircraft guns. So you've got all it's guns up here, and this is upright, and this is on it's side, so¿. This thing is .. you know. So that's this, and this 4:11 this is the bow here with the turret on it 4:12 BB the turret here is the dark thing, okay? And it's sitting upright and it's.. we filmed it very nicely, so he's going to show him that footage. So I want to know what these tubes are that the captain of the 105 says are torpedo launchers, and I want him to look at the weapons on the destroyer to tell us what we think we already know, and that's that this is a Japanese destroyer that hit a mine or was bombed. There you go. So we had a good night. Now we're going to look at some geology while they're looking at ordinates, we're going to dive under what looks like a volcano. ¿ - 5:09, Ambi - Sonar beeping 5:28 FX - tapping, like chalk hitting a table 5:37 still playing Cathy? 5:39 -5:49 FX - someone must be setting up some sort of apparatus, there is a sound of movement and then the same "chalk" sound, except more pronounced and repeated. 5:49 is it a dark screen? 5:51 BB what kind of image you got Cathy? 5:54 C it's at the beginning with the divers in the water, with bubbles¿ 5:57BB All right then it should be blue as hell. 6:17 Dw which one, are you playing the dub? 6:18 C uh huh 6:19 Oh! Uhm¿ FX - loud clapping Voices fade 6:48 FX - solid tapping, an instrument "blip" is repeatedly heard 7:13 yeah, this should be the dupe you made. 8:42 someone whistles 8:48 FX - loud bang can you life that up? That mic? FX - knocki... (Notes truncated)
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