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guaranteeing equipment and technicians for the shooting dates. Eventually this was ironed out but other concerns cropped up, ranging from how many motel rooms would be needed to what we would do if we found something concrete. Phil Davis first put that question to us and all we could say was "I don't know." We had been so busy reading technical manuals about exotic technology like side-scan sonar, that we never paused to consider what locating an actual artifact would entail. Phil assured us that if something was found, money would be made available to deal with the find. September 17, 1995, was the day it all came together. Chris and I, director Alec Griffith, the camera and sound crew, and the two young technicians from Canadian Seabed Research met at the MacKenzie Motel in Shelburne. That first day provided a chance to meet informally and put together a plan so there could be some kind of balance between searching and filming. We made a special trip to Prospect Point Wharf in Shag Harbor to help the techs from CSR load their equipment and get it hooked up and on-line and generally get Murphy s Law ready for the sea. One thing we remember well is how many times we retold the story of the Shag Harbor UFO crash to everyone involved in the search. We felt it was important to get everyone up to speed on the information, and received universal enthusiasm in response, from soundman to skipper. The frenzy to get everything up and ready was punctuated by visits from some of the witnesses and curious locals. News of our search had begun to leak out. On the first day the weather was blustery, which worried us, since we had scheduled only one bad- weather day. Our skipper, Bruce Addams, assured us that the weather would improve. Once Murphy's Law was loaded with the survey equipment, it was obvious that the boys from CSR were anxious to be left on their own to finish mounting and calibrating their equipment. The array of technical toys that filled Murphy's Law's pilot house was impressive. Especially amazing was the navigation system that picked up information that would be integrated with our sonar data stream. A real-time differential global positioning satellite system was to be used for the survey. It operates using corrections transmitted from several reference stations in the United States. You can now get one for your automobile that will give you step-by-step directions on how to get to your destination. We were very much concermed about target recognition in the field. The CSR techs had equipment with which they could coax out further resolution from seabed features while surveying was in progress. If possible debris or UFO wreckage appeared, we could drop anchor and dive. Murphy's Law was also carrying a marine magnetometer, to collect magnetic readings throughout the survey. Although our little expedition did not have a remotely operated vehicle of the kind that surveyed the Titanic wreckage, we were equipped with an underwater video system. It was useful for quick visual checks when time or conditions did not allow time for a dive. grunted a hello. "Good morning, Mr. Styles, this is Don Connolly at CBC Halifax's Information Morning. We're live on air and I wonder if you could tell us a little of what your expedition in Shag Harbor is all about?" The a ee eee ee Or Re It was 7:00 A.M. the next morning when the phone rang in Chris's motel room. He picked it up and cat, it seemed, was out of the bag. So far our presence in Shag Harbor had gone unnoticed. This time things would be different. The news