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Subject: (Interview). Subtitle: Dick Keresey. Timecode In: 00:08:25. Timecode out: 00:56:29. Notes: Pacific Ocean theater of World War II; Solomon Islands; PT boats; John F. Kennedy. Equipment Notes: Two-Track Mono; Electrovoice RE50 Dynamic Omni Microphone. Show: Ballard PT 109 Log of DAT #: 12 Engineer: Date: May 23, 2002 BB = Bob Ballard Dw = Dwight Coleman DK = Dick Keresey NC = Neal Conan :02 all right, here we go. A bit slower. A little faster.. yeah that's a good speed right there :37 then we're going to go down and pass that guy on the left. All right, so there's the guy :48 do you want me to refresh this screen, so we know where to stop? :53 yeah, that would be good. Yeah, so we'll start with that. You ready? 1:13 you see how that's all crummy? Standby¿ 1:30 hit the space bar 1:31 okay, this will take us back through¿ okay we're turning. I think if we're looking for anything it'll be larger. So we're not worried about that database. 1:53 you got a radio here Dwight? 1:54 yup. Okay, that's going to start up there, and our guy is right here. And now we're about.. a beam of it. now we're heading south of it. We're making the turn, so here we are. And now we'd be going down this way. Okay, let's take a peek here. Nice! Man, look at those sand waves. Okay¿ where are we? Ducking back up. Now we're right due south of it, now we're ducking back up. Okay that's about as far as.. we're now going to advance above it. Oh, That's not it. now we'll go back¿ and just keep going¿ So we're way up there. We're going to come down.. there it is, and we're looking for down in there now. I think that's beyond our data. Certainly that's down near Ferguson passage¿ down, not yet¿ okay, we're turning towards ferg. Passage¿ and that's the right low, in the turn. There's the sand waves, again¿ starting to see Kennedy island, so we're really tucked in. so this is¿ 4:41 what? 4:47 500 m 4:54 about a mile. 4:56 no, it's not there 5:02 nope.. not there 5:03 so that's it? 5:04 all right, there she blows. One more line or what? 5:10 um, no there's more 5:12 let's see.. oh! We have one more that wraps underneath, that would be a nice one to see, because these other ones are in the turn and you get distorted rays. That would be a good one. Is it this one? Let's see, this should be interesting 5:42 actually what this one does, it turns and then it's going north 5:46 well still, let's see. There's all the blocks coming off their coral reefs. Now here we go, we're going to head in a turn now¿ there's the turn¿ okay, now, this is a place to watch. Smooth, smooth, smooth, look at that! 6:25 we're still turning a bit 6:27 yeah but still, this is pretty nice coherent sand waves. So it comes up¿ nope. Nice bedforms but¿ no more pt 109. 6:56 that's gotta be it 7:00 well, bracket it. bingo, we're done. 7:09 just searching to see if there was anything further south. 7:30 Track 1 ends 7:31 Track 2 begins Setting up interview¿ 8:25 NC well, first of all, lemme make sure you have you name correct so I don't mispronounce it.. Dick Keresey. You were the commander of PT¿ 8:34 DK 105, 105 8:36 NC same model, the same ..? 8:38 DK identical to the 109. initially the boats were in the same squadron. 8:44 NC where are you from originally? 8:47 DK Montclair 8:48 NC Montclair New Jersey? 8:48 DK Montclair New Jersey, lived there all my life. 8:55 NC I grew up in Englewood 8:59 DK now we live in Delray Beach, FL 9:02 NC everybody that grew up in NJ lives in Delray Beach 9:06 DK right, it's South Jersey 9:10 NC a very southern part of new jersey¿ um.. tell me about what happened that day - you know what day we're talking about, starting out on the missi... (Notes truncated)
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