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Subject 1: (Interview). Subtitle: Sanjayan Muthulingam, Somadasa De Silva. Timecode In: 00:00:30. Timecode out: 01:23:47. Notes: 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami; Coral reef damage. Subject 2: (Environmental Recording). Subtitle: Ocean surf. Timecode In: 01:33:00. Timecode out: 01:35:57. Subject 3: (Interview). Subtitle: R.K. Somadasa De Silva. Timecode In: 01:35:57. Timecode out: 01:51:38. Notes: Coral reef conservation; Scuba diving. Equipment Notes: Decoded MS stereo. SRI LANKA DAT # 1 NPR/NGS RADIO EXPEDITION (transcribed from notes) Somey = R.K. Somadasa De Silva SJ = Sanjayan Muthulingam EA = Elizabeth Arnold no transition to boat 2:16 Somey talks about dive shop "all gone, you can see that completely finish. I lost lot of equipment also people took." 2:57 so when we saw the sea it was like boiling you see, slowly slowly come to the beach suddenly it comes very fast, then up to this level, few seconds so after that we run, and after that glass bottom boats, so we shout to them run run run run (boat motor under) so they run when we come back after, then water¿.you can walk to that rocks, so in that time we don't know anything about tsunami we never heard about that..now that come the dangerous wave, so we run in that time huge wave come, many boat inside hotel.. keeps talking boat motor up high, so we run¿(should not have asked question while boat motor was so high) 6:32 boat full speed in clear "I am sorry to say still no a single person has come to see what happened." I need authority to clean this¿ (no) 7:55 lots of directions (very low) Singhalese 8:37 you see that boat up there (Michael #$@!) 9:18 so this is the end of the reef. 9:27 so we are going to track along the reef in a straight line and map the extent of the reef with a gps and on the way back stop at four locations and do a dive there and map and look at coral damage tsunami..running a transect..end of end, a little snapshot in four different places. 10:11 Somey..now we start right? Singhalese.. 10:56 why do you need to gps.,. it doesn't exist, big challenge information about parks and natural systems, but it's not in one place, I can't call anyone (high motor) and this is the most popular reef system, 80 glass bottom boats, how many dive shops, 6 dive shops and there's not a map of the reef.. 12:20 it's not perfect (motor high) we're not looking for small percentage changes we're looking for tsunami damage. When we were coming our here fundamental question, are we doing an assessment of four or five different areas or are we assessing tsunami damage on five different areas..that's why I can get away with what we're doing¿ 13:40 trick is to know difference between tsunami damage and coral bleaching 15:00 Somey yells and boat turns off quick. (singhelese..numbers..kicker starts) 15:35 so we'll do one dive here, how long>? Says Somey..good little exchange 15:57 kicker keeps going Somey speaks in Singhalese motor dies..water condition not so good, can't see so good.. 17:26 helicopter flies over 19:44 getting ready, second helicopter flies over 23:15 ok splash going in not very good. Somey 'we go to there right?" good. Breathing 23:42 good and then it's all quiet..nice. (transition to above and helicopter while they are underwater???) 26:05 sitting in boat quiet, surf on the rock 27:24 same sound of surf, boat etc. 29:24 sitting around waiting, quiet sound 30:43 equipment coming on board and Singhalese 32:03 good getting on board sound, dripping..good *** 32:39 oh it's messy business alright (talks about coral) 36:50 low motor..cuts off..**** (SJ) 39:30 motor revs up (but Michael talking during..) 40:24 lots of stuff clanging and motor revs up again. Good IN CLEAR!!) 44:38:40 Singhalese, "sj so this is also coral and you say this is the deepest where you are finding coral, I think so yah, what do you mean aro... (Notes truncated)
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