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Speaker 1: Good morning, and engineer, good morning.

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Speaker 2: How are you really good?

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Speaker 3: A bit tired, but yeah, I reckon you would be

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Speaker 1: And we've also got will diver and builder Taylor Smith.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, Taylor, morning Katie. It is wonderful to.

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Speaker 1: Have you both in the studio, and I bet you

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Speaker 2: Like I said, it sounds like something out of a movie.

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Speaker 4: I think we were anticipating somewhere between five and seven hours,

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Speaker 3: I think I think there was a time there we

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Speaker 4: Still there, very surreal, But we were exhausted, like everybody

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Speaker 3: Part in the red Sea, you know, like wo come

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Speaker 4: It was twelve hours in the water, but I think

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Speaker 3: Now logistically and all the crews running the dive boat.

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Speaker 5: The ocean tech army. That was amazing.

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Speaker 2: So how does it feel to be world record holders?

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Speaker 2: This is the thing people got to see.

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Speaker 1: Absolute innovation and like the true territory spirit I think

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Speaker 2: I don't think that that goal. Yeah, it's incredible to see.

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Speaker 4: Show how many people you can get together in one

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Speaker 2: Because I think people are really proud of you guys.

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Speaker 1: So you should be so incredibly proud of yourselves because

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Speaker 6: I don't know what you could actually do it in.

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Speaker 4: It's so much more easy to do things up here,

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Speaker 1: a huge congratulations to you both, Luke and also Taylor

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Speaker 1: and to everybody that was part of your team. And

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Speaker 1: do let us know if the mud Crab is going

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Speaker 1: to be on display somewhere, because we'll make sure everybody's

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Speaker 1: aware of it.

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Speaker 2: You might get mobbed. I reckon, you're gonna have everyone there.

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Speaker 2: Good on you. Thanks so much for your time this morning.

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Speaker 2: Thank you