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Speaker 1: Oh, parochial West Australians like us. I was so excited

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Speaker 1: about the new series of Shipwreck Hunters Australia which is

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Speaker 1: out on Disney Plus today. It's a six part documentary

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Speaker 1: series and it's all way coastline. Every single episode, isn't

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Speaker 1: it mush?

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Speaker 2: Every single episode is right here in Western Australia.

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Speaker 1: Awesome, Nousch Friedman is joining us now you are an

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Speaker 1: underwater photographer, presenter, content creator and residence of x Mouth.

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Speaker 3: Thanks for joining us. Thank you guys so much for

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Speaker 3: having me and had.

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Speaker 4: A bit of a local legend up there on there.

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Speaker 4: Now you're on the Delhi.

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Speaker 1: Being statewide local legend internet as you're going international. I

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Speaker 1: hope you're ready. When did your fascination with shipwrecks begin?

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Speaker 2: I've always had such a huge fascination with the ocean,

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Speaker 2: and of course that shipwrex comes into that. And when

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Speaker 2: I met my partner Dre, he was obsessed with shipwrecks

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Speaker 2: and same with Johnny, Ryan and Ash and he introduced

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Speaker 2: me to them and yeah, just kind of spark that

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Speaker 2: passion from them and diving on shipwrecks is so incredible

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Speaker 2: because there's an amazing amount of life. There you're uncovering stories,

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Speaker 2: art facts, so much to learn and there's just so

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Speaker 2: much mystery that just pulls you into recks. So yeah,

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Speaker 2: it's an incredible feeling to be diving on a wreck

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Speaker 2: and to see things sometimes that nobody else has seen.

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Speaker 1: So you're making a show with people that you already were,

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Speaker 1: You're doing these things with, is that right? Which adds

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Speaker 1: to you know how good the show is, and you

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Speaker 1: would really need to have that level of trust with

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Speaker 1: each other. But diving on a shipwreck is not for

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Speaker 1: the faint hearted, is it?

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Speaker 3: Definitely not?

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Speaker 2: And some of the locations we went to, we're so

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Speaker 2: remote and we really were challenged by the weather. On

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Speaker 2: some of them, we got absolutely flogged by crazy weather.

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Speaker 2: And you have to imagine these shipwrecks were diving. They

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Speaker 2: are in really hard locations to get to and to dive.

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Speaker 2: You sometimes only get three weather windows a year to dive.

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Speaker 2: Some of the wrecks we dove, so some of them

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Speaker 2: we just knew we have a three hour window to

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Speaker 2: get on this wreck like quick. We got to get

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Speaker 2: in the water, smash it out, find what we need

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Speaker 2: to find. And yeah, for some of them, you know,

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Speaker 2: we're getting washed over reefs and picked up by skis

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Speaker 2: to get out of the surf zone and just like

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Speaker 2: getting pulled through the water.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, we don't appreciate what's going on down there

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Speaker 1: but it's what's happening down there that's incredible.

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Speaker 4: But obviously you're in beautiful locations and we know that

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Speaker 4: speaks for itself. But when you first saw some of

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Speaker 4: the Russia, some of the early footage come back, did

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Speaker 4: you realize how beautiful this stuff would look? It was

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Speaker 4: incredible watching episode in the trailer, yeah last night.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, we're so lucky in Wa to have

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Speaker 2: this incredible coastline. It's so rough, it's so rugged and

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Speaker 2: raw and one of the last wild places on Earth

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Speaker 2: Western Australia is you know, we're so lucky here to

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Speaker 2: have this pristine marine environment. And yeah, seeing the footage back,

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Speaker 2: you get a real appreciation for how lucky we are

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Speaker 2: so excited that Shipwreck Hunters Australia is going to show

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Speaker 4: But it's a tribute to the greater team as well,

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Speaker 4: because cinematography is absolutely stunning.

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Speaker 2: Oh thank you. We had some talent to people working

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Speaker 2: boat getting rocked around, looking through their eyepieces, feeling like

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Speaker 2: pretty seasick. They just got all these incredible shots. And yeah,

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Speaker 2: super grateful to have worked with an amazing team of people.

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Speaker 1: I know one of the episodes You're Going Somewhere that

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Speaker 1: I love is the Ambrolus and I've actually seen some

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Speaker 3: Where else are you going?

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Speaker 2: So our shipwrecks range from anywhere from a Brollus to

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Speaker 1: One of them was the oldest shipwreck in w Ways

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, that's over four hundred years old. And that

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Speaker 2: there and diving on huge anchors and cannons. Yeah, with

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Speaker 1: So everyone wants to know, did you find treasure looking

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Speaker 1: for treasure?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? Have you guys noticed Manu? Yeah, I mean I'm

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Speaker 2: not going to give too much away. Pretty good things

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Speaker 2: and obviously not only like the material sort of artifacts

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Speaker 3: Like to see those things.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I love how you've all you've dug deep into

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Speaker 4: Part of those stories have the ongoing story.

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Speaker 2: And on some of the wrecks, we were actually able

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Speaker 2: of the story. And you know, shipwreck stories continue for

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Speaker 1: I think as an adventure hunter, not much could beach

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Speaker 1: setting out for a shipwreck. It really it ticks everything. Now,

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Speaker 1: you you mentioned Drey, your partner, Andrea's on the show

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean when Trey and I are in the

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Speaker 2: we have a lot of trust within each other, like obviously,

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's not many people would.

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Speaker 2: So when I'm in the water, Drey is just like

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Speaker 2: I've never met anyone like him. He's just insanely talented

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's what you want. Yeah, definitely, they say.

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Speaker 1: With the you know, with a job, find something you

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Speaker 1: love and do it for last, so hopefully this will

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Speaker 1: be the first of many of these no Lovely to

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Speaker 1: meet you and we can't wait to watch it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, thank you guys so much for having me and

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Speaker 2: I hope that everybody enjoys the show.

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Speaker 3: And yeah, well it's out on Disney Plus today.

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Speaker 4: Congratulations.

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Speaker 3: Well then, thanks so much guys. Cheers