- Title: USA/AT SEA: DEEP-SEA EXPLORER ROBERT BALLARD HAS LOCATED U.S.S. YORKTOWN
- Date: 5th June 1998
- Summary: AT SEA (RECENT) (NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC HANDOUT) 1. HAS UNDERWATER VIDEO OF ANTI-AIRCRAFT GUN ABOARD U.S.S. YORKTOWN WRECK 0.09 WASHINGTON, D.C., UNITED STATES (JUNE 04, 1998) (RTV) 2. MV DR. ROBERT BALLARD AT PODIUM 0.16 3. SCU BALLARD SAYING "THE YORKTOWN WAS THIS GREAT WARRIOR WHO HAS STOOD IT'S GROUND IN THE BATTLE OF THE CORAL SEA, HAD LIMPED BACK INTO PEARL (HARBOUR), TURNED ITSELF AROUND AND SPRINTED OUT TO THE BATTLEFIELD OF MIDWAY." (ENGLISH) 0.33 UNIDENTIFIED LOCATION (FILE) (MUST COURTESY NEWPORT NEWS SHIPBUILDING) 4. SCU STILL PHOTOGRAPH OF U.S.S. YORKTOWN 0.38 AT SEA (RECENT) (NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC HANDOUT) 5. SCU UNDERWATER CAMERA 0.43 6. HAS UNDERWATER VIDEO OF YORKTOWN WRECKAGE 0.52 WASHINGTON, D.C., UNITED STATES (JUNE 04, 1998) (RTV) 7. SCU BALLARD SAYING "SO, RIGHT BENEATH YOU, YOU'RE BLIND AS A BAT WITH THIS SYSTEM AND GUESS WHAT WE DID ON THE FIRST LINE? WE WENT DIRECTLY OVER THE YORKTOWN AND DIDN'T KNOW IT." (ENGLISH) 1.05 AT SEA (RECENT) (NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC HANDOUT) 8. SCU UNDERWATER VIDEO OF BRIDGE ABOARD YORKTOWN WRECK 1.18 WASHINGTON, D.C., UNITED STATES (JUNE 04, 1998) (RTV) 9. SCU BALLARD SAYING "AND THE FIRST THING I SAW, OUT OF THE ORDINARY, ON THE BOTTOM OF THE OCEAN, AT 17,000 FEET, WAS A MUD CLOT. NOW, MOST PEOPLE WOULDN'T GET EXCITED, AND PETER (UNKNOWN) SAID THIS, HE SAW THIS BIG GRIN COME ON MY FACE AND I SAID, IT'S GOTTA BE THE YORKTOWN. WHAT WE WERE LOOKING AT (THE MUD CLOT) WAS IDENTICAL TO THE FIRST OBJECT I'D SEEN WHEN I CAME IN ON THE TITANIC." (ENGLISH) 1.45 AT SEA (RECENT) (NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC HANDOUT) 10. SCU PLAQUE LEFT AT WRECKAGE SITE BY INTERNATIONAL MIDWAY MEMORIAL FOUNDATION AND UNITED STATES NAVY READING "USS YORKTOWN. GALLANT SHIP WHOSE PLANES, OPERATING AGAINST GREAT ODDS AND AT LARGE SACRIFICE, PLAYED A DECISIVE ROLE IN DESTROYING TWO OF THE FOUR CARRIERS OF THE JAPANESE COMBINED FLEET IN THE BATTLE OF MIDWAY AND THUS TURNED THE TIDE TOWARD VICTORY IN THE WAR AGAINST JAPAN. MORTALLY WOUNDED BY AIRCRAFT BOMBS AND TORPEDOES ON JUNE 4, 1942 AND BY SUBMARINE TORPEDOES ON JUNE 6. SHE SANK ON JUNE 7, 1942 AT 0458." 1.52 WASHINGTON, D.C., UNITED STATES (JUNE 04, 1998) (RTV) 11. SCU YORKTOWN SURVIVOR BILL SURGI SAYING "LIKE I SAID, I'M PRIVELEDGED TO REPRESENT THE CREW TO GO BACK THERE. IT'S NOT MYSELF LOOKING AT THAT SHIP, I REPRESENTED THE CREW, WE ALL LOOKED AT IT." (ENGLISH) 2.08 12. MV SURGI EXPLAINING FINAL MOMENTS OF MIDWAY BATTLE TO REPORTERS AND POINTING TO PHOTOGRAPH 2.16 AT SEA (RECENT) (NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC HANDOUT) 13. HAS UNDERWATER VIDEO OF YORKTOWN WRECKAGE (3 SHOTS) 2.37 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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- Location: WASHINGTON, D.C., UNITED STATES/AT SEA
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