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Speaker 1: Now, how is this for a story? An electric powered

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Speaker 1: land cruiser is going to attempt to cross a seven

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Speaker 1: kilometer stretch of Darwin's Harbor floor with the aim of

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Speaker 1: breaking two world records. Now joining me in the studio

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Speaker 1: to tell us more about it. Well, I've got engineer

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Speaker 1: and stunt driver Luke Perdy.

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Speaker 2: Let me just make sure I've got all your microphones on.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, Luke.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, wonderful, good to good to see you. I've also

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Speaker 1: got dive expert Matt Mitchell. Good morning to you, Matt.

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Speaker 2: And then I've got party planner.

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Speaker 1: It could be the most important job I think ainsworth.

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Speaker 3: Good morning to you.

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Speaker 1: Wonderful to have you all in the studio. Now, look,

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Speaker 1: tell me first exactly how this is going to work?

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Speaker 4: Good question.

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Speaker 5: Basically, we've engineered and built an electric land cruiser, so

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Speaker 5: we've converted forty series land crouvers over to an electric,

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Speaker 5: We've made it waterproof, and we're going to drive it

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Speaker 5: from Mendle Beach, sorry from Mendora across the Mendle Beach

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Speaker 5: on the sea floor.

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Speaker 1: Mate. People are going to be thinking, how can you

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Speaker 1: do that when some cars can't even make it all

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Speaker 1: the way to Catherine let alone.

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Speaker 2: Fling on the going on the cruiser exactly what exactly?

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Speaker 2: So yeah, look what kind of work goes into sorting

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Speaker 6: So I can do that well quite a lot.

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Speaker 5: So obviously we've taken all the diesel engine out, an

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Speaker 5: electric motor has been installed. That's all encased in a

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Speaker 5: housing that's oil filled. There's batteries in the back that's

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Speaker 5: also in a housing that's oil filled. It's all connected

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Speaker 5: with pretty lights, and it's it's positively pressured so the

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Speaker 5: system can't have water ingress while we're doing the operations.

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Speaker 1: To go and the cruise keeps on, It keeps on. God,

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Speaker 1: Now where do you step in there?

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Speaker 4: Like I'm just the driver?

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Speaker 2: Excellent.

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Speaker 4: I've kind of been involved with this project.

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Speaker 7: We're actually filming a big documentary relating to the land

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Speaker 7: cruise of that we've been filming now for probably since January.

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Speaker 7: So this is kind of the culmination of all the

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Speaker 7: things that we've learned throughout the filming of that documentary.

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Speaker 7: And you know, the end goal is to build a

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Speaker 7: land cruise or that can go under the Dale Harbor.

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Speaker 4: And here we are.

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Speaker 2: How incredible, Like how long has this taken to reach this?

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Speaker 4: Point since January, I think is when we really started.

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Speaker 7: Like I drove a land cruise of all things from

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Speaker 7: we basically have just driven all around Australia since then.

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Speaker 2: And so what's the record?

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Speaker 1: So how far has a car previously been able to drive?

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Speaker 1: When we're talking about, you know, breaking the skinness World record?

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Speaker 7: I think the last one made you correct me if

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Speaker 7: I'm wrong. They did about four kilometers.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, So it was originallyttempted down back in nineteen eighty

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Speaker 5: three by a guy called Tim Proctor and a team.

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Speaker 6: They did it with a diesel engine.

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Speaker 5: It was a lot different to what we're doing, and

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Speaker 5: they didn't have the mod cons that we have with

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Speaker 5: you know, seabed mapping, sonar on the bottom things, so

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Speaker 5: they were just doing it with scuba divers and just

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Speaker 5: driving off into the darkness kind of thing. But they

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Speaker 5: still made it about four corn meters I believe.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, how incredible.

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Speaker 1: And then you know, I think when you break a

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Speaker 1: Guinness World Record, or whether you do or you don't,

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Speaker 2: Need to have a party regardless.

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Speaker 3: That is how I found myself this stand.

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Speaker 2: Pete Water's pledged.

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Speaker 8: Well, I guess I started this journey in about March

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Speaker 8: when all of the guys came up to survey the

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Speaker 8: So it was going to be our team anyway on

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Speaker 8: then I realized that this is a mega event. This

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Speaker 8: is a forty anniversary, and forty years ago you could

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Speaker 8: just go down to Mendel. You know, we get skis

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Speaker 3: To support the Proctors. They obviously had a lot of

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Speaker 8: But yeah, absolutely, and we want that to happen again.

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Speaker 8: And I think that we're going to bring that eighty spirit,

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Speaker 8: which is fun. We're doing like tailgate beers. We're taking

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Speaker 8: We've got epic yacht rock. I hope you Tim Proctor

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Speaker 8: they will be drinks, entertainment, they jump there.

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Speaker 2: Particularly fun about that, you know.

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Speaker 8: Who doesn't exactly you, but basically where they're all day

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Speaker 8: because we want to morally and physically support you guys.

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Speaker 3: So if anyone wants to see seven am, basically we're

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Speaker 3: at Mindle, We're going to set up all day.

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Speaker 8: We're live screening, live streaming from this epic mission from

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Speaker 8: ten there's a big screen down at Mendle in the shade,

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Speaker 8: but we'll also have music and fun and and it's

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Speaker 8: a great day in the dry season to be done

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Speaker 1: It sounds like it's going to be fantastic, but it

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Speaker 1: actually it sounds like an incredible like it's it's a pretty.

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Speaker 2: Incredible thing to be doing, right.

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Speaker 7: I wake up every day and ask myself that question.

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Speaker 7: I'm going to remind myself of the epicness of what

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Speaker 7: we're trying to achieve, how far we've come and how

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Speaker 7: far they're still to go. Plus the community that stood

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Speaker 7: behind us. Most of the people that we've just asked

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Speaker 7: for things and they've been epic things.

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Speaker 4: They've always just said yes. And the Northern Territory is

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Speaker 4: great for that.

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Speaker 1: The Northern Territory is truly great for that. And The

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Speaker 1: thing I always think about the territory is what makes

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Speaker 1: it so wonderful is the people.

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Speaker 2: And that's really you know, I've got three of you

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Speaker 3: Yeah, this is a spirit, a real territory person.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it truly is. Now tell me you know, I

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Speaker 2: guess you want people to really get down there. You

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Speaker 2: do want that support.

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Speaker 1: You know, if anybody's out there listening this morning thinking

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Speaker 4: Come on down watch the World Change Cruiser.

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Speaker 5: There was at least a thousand people and mindle back

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Speaker 5: Pip said the live streaming, that live stream is a

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Speaker 1: What kind of support, like when you talk about those divers,

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Speaker 2: You know as that vehicle's being driven.

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Speaker 5: Yes, we have a fully equipped dive support vessel on

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Speaker 5: We've got data cables coming up that give us diagnostic

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Speaker 5: People would be surprised that we actually have, you know,

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Speaker 6: I mean, that's that's just awesome.

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Speaker 2: So how long is it going to take?

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Speaker 4: I reckon five to seven hours?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, so I've basically our couts on half a night.

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Speaker 5: That will probably get bogged a few times and we'll

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Speaker 6: So yeah, it'd probably stretch out to we have five hours.

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Speaker 5: We're going to go in the water at about know

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Speaker 5: and so sometime just after lunch hopefully it gets delayed

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Speaker 2: Delayed, you'd be fine. Why an't you? Absolutely?

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Speaker 3: And you know what the dry season endowing.

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Speaker 8: It's magical And a lot of people, I think a

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Speaker 8: non local and local think that they can't have a

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Speaker 3: It's so not true.

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Speaker 8: I mean, you don't have to swim if you don't

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Speaker 8: a part of it, and it's a free public event.

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Speaker 3: We're setting up things to keep you comfortable.

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Speaker 8: But bring your brollies, bring whatever you want, bring your dogs,

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Speaker 8: you can bring your boat. I mean if people want

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Speaker 8: to bring their water, you know things, We're there for you.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and we're going to have fun.

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Speaker 8: Now.

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Speaker 1: If people are after some more info, is this somewhere

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Speaker 1: they can hit online if they want to find out

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Speaker 1: a little bit more detail.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, basically they's social media at the Trader Bar. I'm

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Speaker 8: keeping everyone up to date between now and then and

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Speaker 8: then on the day all day so you'll know where

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Speaker 8: we're at. You'll know you know what what's happening. How

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Speaker 8: your launch should I go down there? So just keep

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Speaker 8: an eye on the stories and you know where to find.

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Speaker 2: Out wonderful stuff.

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Speaker 1: Good all you guys, and well done to everybody involved.

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Speaker 1: I hope that it goes incredibly well. It definitely will be.

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Speaker 1: But yeah, how I just think it's wonderful. I like

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Speaker 1: to see territorials doing great stuff and this is yet

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Speaker 1: another example of it. So thank you all so much

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Speaker 1: for joining us this morning.

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Speaker 2: Thanks very much, Thank you