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Dives of the Bathyscaph Trieste, 1958-1963: Transcriptions of Sixty-One Dictabelt Recordings in the Robert Sinclair Dietz Papers, 1905-1994 Dives of the Bathyscaph Trieste, 1958-1963: Transcriptions of sixty-one dictabelt recordings in the Robert Sinclair Dietz Papers, 1905-1994 from Manuscript Collection MC28 Archives of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography University of California, San Diego La Jolla, California 92093-0219: September 2000 This transcription was made possible with support from the U.S. Naval Undersea Museum 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION ...........................................................................................................................4 CASSETTE TAPE 1 (Dietz Dictabelts #1-5) .................................................................................6 #1-5: The Big Dive to 37,800. Piccard dictating, n.d. CASSETTE TAPE 2 (Dietz Dictabelts #6-10) ..............................................................................21 #6: Comments on the Big Dive by Dr. R. Dietz to complete Piccard's description, n.d. #7: On Big Dive, J.P. #2, 4 Mar., n.d. #8: Dive to 37,000 ft., #1, 14 Jan 60 #9-10: Tape just before Big Dive from NGD first part has pieces from Rex and Drew, Jan. 1960 CASSETTE TAPE 3 (Dietz Dictabelts #11-14) ............................................................................30 #11-14: Dietz, n.d. CASSETTE TAPE 4 (Dietz Dictabelts #15-18) ............................................................................39 #15-16: Dive #61 J. Piccard and Dr. A. Rechnitzer, depth of 18,000 ft., Piccard dictating, n.d. #17-18: Dive #64, 24,000 ft., Piccard, n.d. CASSETTE TAPE 5 (Dietz Dictabelts #19-22) ............................................................................48 #19-20: Dive Log, n.d. #21: Dr. Dietz on the bathysonde, n.d. #22: from J. Piccard, 14 July 1960 CASSETTE TAPE 6 (Dietz Dictabelts #23-25) ............................................................................57 #23-25: Italian Dive, Dietz, Mar 8, n.d. CASSETTE TAPE 7 (Dietz Dictabelts #26-29) ............................................................................64 #26-28: Italian Dive, Dietz, n.d. #29: Italy Dive with A. Pollini, J. Piccard No. 5, 3 March, n.d. CASSETTE TAPE 8 (Dietz Dictabelts #30-35) ............................................................................75 #30-33: J. Piccard, 27 Feb., n.d. #34: J. Piccard to B. Dietz, n.d. #35: J. Piccard on Seepage of Trieste, n.d. CASSETTE TAPE 9 (Dietz Dictabelts #36-40) ............................................................................97 #36-40: Last Comments, 5-27-1960 TABLE OF CONTENTS, continued 3 CASSETTE TAPE 10 (Dietz Dictabelts #41-45) ..........................................................................98 #41-42: Neptune, n.d. #43: Newton, J.P., 4 Mar., n.d. #44-45: Phantom Bottom, R.D., 7 Dec 60 CASSETTE TAPE 11 (Dietz Dictabelts #46-50) ........................................................................112 #46: Rechnitzer on 19,000 ft. Dive, n.d. #47-49: San Diego Dives, Jacques Piccard, 3 March, n.d. #50: Dr. Dietz on Dives of Trieste off San Diego, Sept. 1958-59 CASSETTE TAPE 12 (Dietz Dictabelts #51-55) ........................................................................125 #51-52: Untitled, n.d. #53-55: Untitled, n.d. CASSETTE TAPE 13 (Dietz Dictabelts #56-60) ........................................................................126 #56: Untitled, n.d. #57: Untitled, 26 May, n.d. #58-59: Untitled, 7-4-60 #60: Untitled, 26 August 1962 CASSETTE TAPE 14 (Dietz Dictabelts Sample tape)................................................................133 #61: San Diego Tech. Obs., Jacques Piccard #1, 4 March, n.d. TAPE GUIDE ..............................................................................................................................136 4 INTRODUCTION The Robert Sinclair Dietz Papers in the Scripps Institution of Oceanography Archives contain ninety-five Dictaphone dictabelt sound recordings regarding the bathyscaph Trieste and other subjects. Of these, sixty-one were selected by SIO Archives for remastering and transcription with funds provided by the U.S. Navy. Fifty-four of the red plastic dictabelts were found in a box marked One Hundred Dictabelt Records by Dictaphone Corporation for the Dictaphone Time- Master Dictating Machine; the box was titled Trieste B’Scaph (File) Letters. The other dictabelts were found in various locations in the Dietz Papers. Some of the dictabelts had been labeled in crayon or grease pencil on the dictabelt surface; others had titles or notes written on envelopes into which the dictabelts had been placed; many were unlabeled or undated. Archives staff placed the dictabelts into acid-free envelopes, and transcribed the titles onto the envelopes. The dictabelts were arranged alphabetically by title, and similar titles grouped together (Big Dive, San Diego Dives, etc.) Untitled recordings were placed at the end. As it was unknown whether or not the recordings were still audible, or if they contained information of historical value, four of the dictabelts were selected and sent to a sound engineer for remastering. The resulting sample tape, proved that the dictabelts were indeed audible and contained information regarding the Trieste. The remaining dictabelts, excluding those whose titles appeared to be manuscript drafts or subjects unrelated to the bathyscaph dives, were sent out for remastering to audiocassette tape. Finally, all of the audiotapes were sent out for transcription. Remastering of the dictabelts to audiocassette tape was performed by Adrian Cosentini of Bayside, New York. Transcription was done by Michele Deradune of Austin, Texas. The finished tapes were numbered one through thirteen, with the sample tape becoming number fourteen. The dictabelts selected for remastering were numbered one through sixty-one by Archives staff to avoid confusion, as many of the dictabelts had similar titles, unclear titles, or no titles at all. The tape and dictabelt numbers appear in the table of contents; the dictabelt titles are the original titles given by Dietz. Dietz sometimes refers to the dictabelts in his dictation as tape one, tape two, etc. These numbers should not be confused with the audiotape or dictabelt numbers assigned by the Archives. Speakers on the tapes are Robert S. Dietz, Jacques Piccard, Andreas B. Rechnitzer, and an unidentified speaker who appears briefly in conversation with Piccard. Many of the recordings are observations and comments about the bathyscaph Trieste made after the dives. Sometimes the speakers appear to be referring to notes made during the dives. As Piccard says on the first tape, “This is not a literary description of the dive, but just a resume to recall the main, most important facts of the dive.” In particular, the tapes refer to the dive made in the Challenger Deep (The Big Dive), and to dives made off Italy and San Diego. Other tapes include correspondence, memoranda, and manuscript drafts. Manuscript drafts, corrections and comments on the drafts, and subjects unrelated to the dives were not transcribed. The recordings range in date from 1958 to 1963. Sound quality of the tapes varies from fair to good. Many of the recordings have numerous skips and repetitions, as on a scratched record album. The transcriber has written “inaudible” in brackets where she could not determine what was said. She also placed comments in brackets where she was not certain about a word. Longer notes from the transcriber are in italics and are set apart from the text. The spelling and vocabulary list provided to the transcriber 5 was derived from the Robert Sinclair Dietz Papers, 1905-1994 (MC28), SIO Archives, UCSD and from Seven Miles Down: The Story of the Bathyscaph Trieste by Robert S. Dietz and Jacques Piccard (New York: Putnam, 1961). 6 Cassette Tape 1 (Dietz Dictabelts #1-5): The Big Dive to 37,800. Piccard dictating, n.d. Dietz: This is a recording of the deepest dive to 37,800 feet with [Jacques] Piccard and [Lt. Don] Walsh. Piccard: [Inaudible] you guys begin. This is not a literary description of the dive, but just a résumé to recall the main, most important facts of the dive. We left the harbor from Guam on January 19 at about 1300. In the beginning the weather was absolutely good. It was a wind, not too strong but probably between 5 and 10 knots, but the wind was exactly coming from northeast and as we were going southwest it was very good and the waves themselves had nearly exactly the speed of the bathyscaph, so we could nearly hope to stay on the same waves until we arrived on the spot. As everything was good still the next morning, the 20th of January, we increased slightly the speed but immediately after we increased the speed we had a little accident. The towing cable broke. More exactly it was not the cable itself but the bridle of the bathyscaph. At this time the sea was relatively rough for working onboard of the bathyscaph and nevertheless we could make the work. Buono, Lt. Shumaker and myself, after going onboard of the bathyscaph with a little rubber boat. Then we start to do again and we arrived on the spot on the 21st of January at about noon. This unfortunately was just too late to make the dive on this day because it was absolutely recommended to arrive on the surface after the dive on the daylight and possibly 2 or 3 hours before the night so that the ship could [inaudible word; find?] bathyscaph slowly before the night. If the cable would not have broken we could have arrived on the spot about 9 o’clock, something like this, and we could have made the dive this day. Another aside: It was not too bad because sounding made
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