GK: We got out on the Lake yesterday afternoon in an 85-foot research boat The Blue Heron operated by the University of Minnesota Duluth ----waited for two ore boats to come in and then pulled out of the harbor and the Lift Bridge lifted for us and past the tourists waving on the long pier to the lighthouse and out to sea.
Play us a little of the recording we made on the Blue Heron, Sam ------ I think this is from when we came across that first ore boat--- (OUTDOOR LAKE AMBIENCE, BIG SHIP HORN, UP CLOSE ---- CRIES OF FEAR, RUNNING FOOTSTEPS, PANIC, ALARMS GOING OFF. QUICK CUT) ---- wrong cut, sorry---- it's the next cut----- (AMBIENCE. BOAT HORN. TR (ON RADIO): This is the Blue Heron, looking for a lift. (FN RADIO: Oh yeah. What's it worth to you? TR: Lift the bridge, dang it FN; Let's see you come on up and make me.) ----- anyway we headed out on the lake and there was a flock of seagulls (SFX) that was flying around and around the boat and they were excited and they were dropping ----- well, you know ---- and the first mate Svend got a little perturbed (OUTDOOR AMBIENCE, TR BERSERK SWEDISH GIBBERISH, GULLS, SHOTGUN BLASTS, GULLS LAUGHING, CUT) ----- anyway we were out on the lake taking sediment samples from the bottom and water samples and measuring chlorophyll in the water, the darkness of the water, temperature---- play the audio of the scientist taking the water sample---- if you can find it---- (OUTDOOR LAKE AMBIENCE, MAN'S LONG CRY FALLING, SPLASH) ----- wrong audio, sorry ---- play the one where the geologist is looking at the sediment samples from the bottom----
(OUTDOOR AMBIENCE, GLOP HANDLING, MEN'S MURMURS)
FN: So what do you think, Ron? Is it what I think it is?
TR: Yep. Oil.
FN: Hnnh. Had no idea.
TR: Neither did I. (GLOP)
FN: What do you think?
TR: I'm thinking.
FN: If we report this, it's going to be all over the Internet by morning. By tomorrow night there'll be fifty thousand cars lined up on the Interstate, people coming to get rich on oil. Same thing that happened to North Dakota ---- it'd happen to Duluth.
TR: I know.
FN: The community torn apart by greed and envy. And a forest of oil platforms out here on the lake.
TR: What do you think we should do?
FN: Throw it back in and don't breathe a word.
TR: But you and I could be first in line to buy oil rights. We could sell the oil rights for 40 or 50 million. We could move to the Caribbean, have huge homes, private jets, our kids could go to Harvard, we could travel around the world, we could----- what are you doing? Let go of me. Hey. No. (STRUGGLE) No!!!!!! (SPLASH)
(PAUSE, FOOTSTEPS. STOP)
SS: Where's Ron?
FN: Ron?
SS: Ron.
FN: Oh. Ron. Right. I donno. He was talking about how depressed he is and how he feels like he's come to the end and how life is (CLICK) -----Sorry, that wasn't the audio clip I had in mind. Play the one of the crew singing a sea shanty. Play that one, Sam. (ACCORDION, AMBIENCE)
GK: We're scientists who go sea-farin.
ALL: Cast off.....out on Superior.
GK: A trawler called The Blue Heron.
ALL: Out of Duluth.
GK: The lake's our college and our church
ALL: Cast off.....out on Superior.
GK: We worship God by doing our research.
ALL: Out of Duluth.
GK: Thanksgiving comes and we can sail no more.
ALL: Cast off....out on Superior.
GK: One more time we'll push off from the shore.
ALL: Out of Duluth.