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Subject: (Interview). Subtitle: David Doubilet. Timecode In: 00:17:00. Timecode out: 00:57:00. Notes: Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary; Coral reef description. Habitat: Marine, Ocean. Equipment Notes: Stereo=1; Dual-Channel Mono. NPR/NGS Radio Expeditions Dive with David Doubilet Dat#4 13:00 breathing 16: 23 okay i'm' going to jump now ...here i go ... staggered breath 16:50 ... 17:03 i'm looking at the noaa boat cool-hand. where i am diving is a, reef south of key west. i'm holding out for a buoy right now, breathing through aga mask. at this point going to pull and empty vest and begin to dive. 18:31 i'm hard-wired back to boat through an umbilical cord. 19:42 i'm on a reef that is part of a stepping stones that leads north wards along the fl keys to miami. okay, imagine if you will this, a tail of islands the fl keys trailing south southwestward along the edge of the gulf stream sandwiched between the great green waters of the gulf of mexico and the blue waters of the gulf stream its strange but to really see the waters of the gulf stream....21:15 a tiny polyp, eating... 21:23 this tiny polyp creates the largest most complex structures built by a living organism on our planet ...if you added all the corral on our planet tog. all the reef sys. you would come up with a seventh continent an x-tra continent, a continent built of living creatures ...apt. made of calcium, ...creatures like blue gorgonians and sea fans ...waving back and forth, they are not feathers or plants ...they are animals each composed of a tiny mouth feeding ... on the plankton of the sea ... 22:38 this reef i am on is called a western sambo reef ...it is a recipient of large storms hurricane that sweep up from carr . ...creating huge waves crashing across the reefs ... 23:12 i'm going to swim a little bit right now, get into position ct 24:20 hands sort of outreaching hands in prayer...reaching toward the light and toward the surface ... if you look closely at them you can see the structure, this is a brown coral. the edge of the brown coral has really like fingers thick spatulate fingers ... and each of these finger-like, composed of polyps ... i can see the mouths of the polyps opening and feeding ...each polyp has tentacles ...and they feed on the broth of the ocean plankton and plankton means everything... zooplankton (ex) living creatures, phytoplankton made of monocolonial algae plankton moves and swims drifts the great blooms of phytoplankton--and all of these corals are feeding on them. 25:22 now here's where i am in rel. with our continent. the florida keys ...kind of dribbles out of the end of fl arching south-¬southwest ...they are kind of like a picket fence a line that divides the open atlantic from the green waters of the gulf of mexico ... 25:57 here's an octopus crawling right in the branches at the top ... of this antler coral i'm lookng right into his eyes now he's the color but when he sees me he blushes, he blushes with a reticulated pattern...brown and white the oct. eyes are one of the most complex of the animal kingdom .. this is a creature that only lives for 2 years but some of them grow very large size this oct part pretty they have eight arms that's why they call them octopus ...and in the middle a beak they're the mortal enemies of lots of shrimp and crustaceans ...occ they'll go out after a fish, but here it is crawling around the very top of this antler coral. 27:15 Eastward, the gulf stream born on the bottom part ofthe carribean sweeping through the yucatan channel sweeping around ... sweeping around and up across florida and all along our eastern seaboard and around like a gr gyre across the atlantic the gulf stream is to the east and it meanders back and forth kind of spraying its blue waters across the fl keys ... from time to time. The prevailing winds from the we... (Notes truncated)
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