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Subject: (Interview). Subtitle: Robert Ballard, Dale Ridder. Timecode In: 00:00:04. Timecode out: 01:04:07. Notes: Also in recording is Dwight Coleman and other unidentified people; Underwater Archaeology; PT-109 found. Equipment Notes: Two-Track Mono; Electrovoice RE50 Dynamic Omni Microphone. Show: Ballard Log of DAT #: 11 Engineer: Neal Conan Date: May 23, 2002 BB = Bob Ballard Dw = Dwight Coleman DR = Dale Ridder NC = Neal Conan Title 0:01 Ambi. Sonar rhythmically beeps amidst background noise. 0:13 (sonar continues) "The reason it's going away is because we're rising" "It's staying pretty steady on the altitude, sir." "I don't think we're over it" "I think you are¿" 0:27 (sonar continues) "The crest of this thing is, ah, 390 to 400 meters" "I think it's beneath us, I just don't think we've reached the (inaudible)" 0:44 (sonar continues) "That should be about it, we should be on top of it now, 400 meters." "We're pretty settled¿ Let's go down and take a peek" 1:16 "Cathy, you might have to adjust the iris on the ____ like you did in the right area¿ we started having, uh¿ many things reflective.." 1:27 "We might need to cut your levels a little" "An altitude of 20 meters" "Yeah you need to get about 8 meters off it" "There we've got some visual coming in" "Yeah that looks like sediments" 1:47 ¿."14 meters" "keep going" "Yeah that looks like 'pilalogus'" 2:04 "Is that P? Sure looks like P." "I can't tell" "Keep going down." "going down" "they're stationary in respect to us, so it's okay." 2:20 "Keep going down, I wanna walk you down close, don't wanna bail out." "Those are P" 2:30 "4 meters" Keep going, keep going, now stop.. fish.. 2:34 "zoom in, zoom in" "Cathy" "I'm zoomed in" "no you're not" "move the zoom knob back and forth" 2:44 "there's a starfish right there" "yeah those are fish" "we're backing off" "that's good" "follow it down" "yeah those are P, with tailus..broken off tailus¿ see that? Tailus of P" 3:11 "now back up" "ok" "so you wanna get to the base or the "no, I don't care, I want to get to the top of it. I just want to get some good footage. Once you get it, then leave it.. "yeah, those are tailus" 3:26 "so we want to crest. It's okay" "get up to the top." "zoom back in, rise back up" "coming up" "I'm up to (sonar beeping)¿ 3:39 "you want him to drive slowly towards the crest?" "yeah" "what was our starting depth at present depth? "the depth right now is 4" 3:52 "negative, negative, let's start driving towards that other target there" "_____ crest" "very slowly, half a knot" 3:56 (sonar beeping and mumbling) 4:16 "it's not fresh flaulus, but that's tailus. You can get very steep advancing lava that just peels off¿ and breaks up.. every thirty years. But it's volcanic rock, it's not coral. So you know, it's a flank eruption from the big guy out¿" 4:58 (sonar beeping¿ background noise) 5:05 "memories of the mid-atlantic ridge, 1974" "turning left" 5:20 "now I remember why I switched from geology to anthropology" "it's boring! It's just a rock, Bob!" 5:36 "so try and keep track of your composite depth, see if the bottom is still rising" .. "so it's a little off to the east, it's about 1-4-0." 5:53 "there's a sound, right there" 6:02 "so we just drove forward¿Zeke? 6:07 (sonar continues to beep, people talking in the background.¿ ) 6:45 "okay Cathy, you can have your box back" "thank you sorry, I didn't realize¿" "it's all right, just take that other one¿" "it just moved away from the side¿" 7:11 (sonar continues, a person in the foreground yawns) 7:18 "so now what are we trying to do?" "we're trying to get to the very top of the pile" "this big shadow, that could be the crest right there¿ that shadow" "this i... (Notes truncated)
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