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Speaker 1: In the early morning hours of March first, nineteen fifty four,
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Speaker 1: a Japanese fisherman was asleep inside of his bed on
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Speaker 1: board this fishing vessel, when suddenly he sat up because
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Speaker 1: the room he was in was now completely illuminated in
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Speaker 1: this unbelievably bright.
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Speaker 2: Orangey white light.
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Speaker 1: Now, he looked at his watch and saw it was
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Speaker 1: too early for sunrise, and so whatever this light was,
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Speaker 1: it was not the sun. And so this fisherman leaped
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Speaker 1: out of his bed, he ran upstairs to the top deck,
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Speaker 1: and he looked out towards these lights in the sky, and.
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Speaker 2: Then the lights just vanished.
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Speaker 1: And so for a minute, this fisherman and the rest
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Speaker 1: of the crew were kind of relieved because they're thinking, Okay,
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Speaker 1: this seemed bad whatever it was, but it's gone now. However,
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Speaker 1: they didn't know this yet, but those lights were just
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Speaker 1: the beginning of a two week long nightmare that would
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Speaker 1: go down in history as the first time ever humans
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Speaker 1: experienced this particular.
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Speaker 2: Horrible, horrible thing.
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Speaker 1: let's get into today's story. At around one am on
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Speaker 1: March first, nineteen fifty four, a twenty year old fisherman
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Speaker 1: named Oishi Matashishi finally headed down to his bed on
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Speaker 1: the lower deck of the fishing boat that he worked on,
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Speaker 1: which was called the Lucky Dragon Number five.
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Speaker 2: Owishi was totally exhausted.
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Speaker 1: He and the other twenty two crew members had been
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Speaker 1: working practically around the clock eighteen hour days for the
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Speaker 1: last six weeks trying to catch tuna, but so far
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Speaker 1: this trip had really been a disaster.
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Speaker 2: They had gotten stranded on sandbars, there had been these.
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Speaker 1: Terrible storms that had nearly capsized the boat, and then
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Speaker 1: also they had lost a lot of their fishing lines
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Speaker 1: when they got snagged on coral reefs, and so as
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Speaker 1: a result, their tuna hals so far had been devastatingly low,
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Speaker 1: and Owishi and the rest of the crew were very
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Speaker 1: aware of this. In fact, Owishi was very worried that
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Speaker 1: he would not bring home enough money to support his family.
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Speaker 1: Back when Oishi was fourteen years old, his father, who
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Speaker 1: had been the breadwinner for their family, had been crushed
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Speaker 1: to death when he was repairing a ship. And so
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Speaker 1: now Owishi had stepped into that patriarch role taking care
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Speaker 1: of his mother and his five other siblings. And so
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Speaker 1: Owishi really needed a solid paycheck from this trip.
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Speaker 2: And it wasn't looking like that was going to happen.
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Speaker 1: And so Owishi staggered his way into his small room
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Speaker 1: and he collapsed onto his bed, and as he lay
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Speaker 1: there trying to sleep, he felt the ship gently rocking
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Speaker 1: side to side. The ship, the Lucky Dragon number five,
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Speaker 1: was anchored relatively close to the Marshall Islands, which is
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Speaker 1: a strip of islands right about halfway between Hawaii and Australia.
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Speaker 1: But what's unique about the Marshall Islands is they sit
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Speaker 1: over these huge, ancient underwater volcanoes. Now, these volcanoes are dormant,
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Speaker 1: but the captain of the Lucky Dragon number five was
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Speaker 1: weary enough about getting too close to these dormant volcanoes
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Speaker 1: in fear they might erupt that he intentionally kept them
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Speaker 1: about eighty miles or so away from the Marshall Islands,
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Speaker 1: and so eventually Owishi did drift off to sleep in
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Speaker 1: his bunk. But five hours later, Owishi suddenly sat up
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Speaker 1: wide awake because the little room he was in was
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Speaker 1: now completely flooded with this very bright, yellowy light, and
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Speaker 1: so Owishi, you know, he's kind of confused. He felt
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Speaker 1: like it was too early for sunrise, and he checked
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Speaker 1: his watch and he saw it was only six forty
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Speaker 1: five am, and so, yes, it was too early for sunrise.
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Speaker 2: So whatever this was, it was not the sun.
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Speaker 1: And then when he went to the little porthole window
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Speaker 1: where all this light was coming in, you know, he
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Speaker 1: had to squint his eyes, but he looked outside and
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Speaker 1: he couldn't tell where this light was really coming from
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Speaker 1: or what it was, but he could clearly see it
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Speaker 1: was coming from the west and the sun rises in
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Speaker 1: the east. So really, whatever this light was, it was
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Speaker 1: not the sun. At the same time, the rest of
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Speaker 1: Oishi's crewmates who were in this room with him, they
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Speaker 1: were also starting to wake up and kind of looking around,
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Speaker 1: like what's going on here? And then without even saying anything.
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Speaker 1: All of them just rushed out of the room and
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Speaker 1: ran upstairs to the top deck to look around and
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Speaker 1: see what was going on. And when they got up there,
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Speaker 1: Owishi looked out towards the west where these lights were
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Speaker 1: up in the sky, and he couldn't really see a
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Speaker 1: clear point of origin. It wasn't like there was an
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Speaker 1: obvious thing creating these lights. It was more like the
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Speaker 1: western sky was just unbelievably bright and yellow and orange,
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Speaker 1: and it seemed like the light was kind of hovering
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Speaker 1: over where the Marshall Islands would be, And so everyone's thinking,
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Speaker 1: you know, is it possible this is a volcano eruption?
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Speaker 2: You know, is there something else going on here?
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Speaker 1: And then as the crew is just watching in stun
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Speaker 1: silence and all these crazy lights in the sky, the
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Speaker 1: lights kind of began to fade and they turned blue
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Speaker 1: and purple, and then they just went away, and the
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Speaker 1: entire crew was pitched back into darkness. And as everyone's
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Speaker 1: just standing around having no idea what to make of
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Speaker 1: these lights, the oldest crew member on board, who was
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Speaker 1: forty years old, he said, the one thing that everybody
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Speaker 1: kind of in the back of their mind was thinking
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Speaker 1: about but didn't want to say, the oldest crew member
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Speaker 1: just said atomic bomb. Just nine years earlier, the United
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Speaker 1: States had dropped two atomic bombs on Japan to end
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Speaker 1: World War Two. Now Oishi, who was Japanese, he was
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Speaker 1: eleven years old at the time this happened, and it
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Speaker 1: had a profound impact on his life and his family's lives,
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Speaker 1: as friends, I mean, anybody who was alive when this happened.
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Speaker 1: It changed everything. But as Owishi and the rest of
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Speaker 1: his crew were kind of staring out to the west,
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Speaker 1: which was all dark at this point. But Weishi thought,
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Speaker 1: you know, there's no way this could have been an
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Speaker 1: atomic bomb. Number One, world War two is over, so
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Speaker 1: there's no reason a bomb would get dropped again. And two,
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Speaker 1: when those atomic bombs were dropped on Japan nine years earlier,
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Speaker 1: it vaporized basically everything and everyone in its path. And
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Speaker 1: so for them to be this close to these huge lights,
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Speaker 1: you know, if that were an atomic bomb, wouldn't they
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Speaker 1: too be vaporized, like they would not be able to
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Speaker 1: see that and live. And so Owishi began to tell himself,
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Speaker 1: you know, okay, it probably was not a volcano eruption,
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Speaker 1: It probably was not an atomic bomb. I don't know
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Speaker 1: what it was, but we're okay. And while many of
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Speaker 1: the other people on board the ship felt the same way,
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Speaker 1: o Wishi did. Very quickly, the call came out amongst
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Speaker 1: the crew to just go ahead and bring in the
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Speaker 1: lines right now.
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Speaker 2: We don't know what.
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Speaker 1: These lights were, but we need to head back to port,
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Speaker 1: back in Yaizuo, Japan, And so quickly Owishi and the
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Speaker 1: rest of the crew got to work pulling these lines
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Speaker 1: in and prepping the boat to head back to port.
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Speaker 1: And then at some point, after Owishi had done what
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Speaker 1: he was supposed to do, he began walking his way
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Speaker 1: down below to the galley.
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Speaker 2: To get some food. But when Oishi was.
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Speaker 1: About halfway, he suddenly heard this deafening explosion outside, coming
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Speaker 1: from the west where these lights had been, and immediately
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Speaker 1: Owishi just jumped onto the ground, covering.
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Speaker 2: His head, thinking that was going to protect him.
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Speaker 1: And as he's laying there listening to this unbelievable exploding sound,
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Speaker 1: he's thinking, oh my gosh, one of those volcanoes under
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Speaker 1: the Marshall Islands has indeed erupted. That's what's happening, and
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Speaker 1: any minute now, a giant tsunami wave from this eruption
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Speaker 1: is going to flip us over. We're gonna get killed here,
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Speaker 1: and SOI, as this massive exploding sound is going on,
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Speaker 1: he jumps to his feet and he runs upstairs, and
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Speaker 1: he finds the majority of the crew that was still
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Speaker 1: up there had jumped to the ground and they were
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Speaker 1: just kind of protecting themselves. A couple braver crew members
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Speaker 1: had stood up and were kind of looking out towards
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Speaker 1: the west to see if they could see what was
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Speaker 1: going on, but there were no lights now. It was
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Speaker 1: just these crazy, loud, exploding sounds coming from the west.
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Speaker 1: And then suddenly all the sound stopped, and Oishi and
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Speaker 1: the crew at that point braced for what they believed
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Speaker 1: was this inevitable tsunami wave that was going to hit them.
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Speaker 1: But the weird thing thing was is after the exploding
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Speaker 1: sound stopped, everything was totally calm. In fact, Ohi glanced
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Speaker 1: over the edge of the boat and he saw the
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Speaker 1: water was totally placid, more calm than normal. And after
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Speaker 1: a few more minutes went by and no massive tsunami
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Speaker 1: wiped them all out, the crew was like, what's.
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Speaker 1: exchanging wild theories about what these lights in these sounds
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Speaker 1: could have been, ranging from again the volcano, or maybe
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Speaker 1: an atomic bomb or some set maybe an asteroid hit
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Speaker 1: the Earth. And as they're doing that, the ship captain
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Speaker 1: called out again, hey, finish pulling in the lines. We
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Speaker 1: need to get out of here right now. We don't
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Speaker 1: know what that was. We don't know what's coming next.
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Speaker 1: We gotta go now. For reference, pulling in these lines
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Speaker 1: was not as simple as it sounded. It was kind
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Speaker 1: of a long and complicated process, and so Owishi and
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Speaker 1: the rest of the crew they began doing their best
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Speaker 1: to pull these lines in as quickly as they could.
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Speaker 2: But when the.
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Speaker 1: Sun finally rose in the east, the crew on board
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Speaker 1: the Lucky Dragon number five as they out towards the west,
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Speaker 1: towards the Marshall Islands, they began to notice these weird
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Speaker 1: gray clouds forming over these islands. And as the crew
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Speaker 1: began to talk about these strange looking clouds, they noticed
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Speaker 1: that despite the wind blowing from east to west, these clouds,
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Speaker 1: these weird clouds over the islands were actually making their
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Speaker 1: way towards them. Basically, they were moving against the wind,
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Speaker 1: which made no sense. And so as these clouds got
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Speaker 1: closer and closer, the ship captain was screaming at a
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Speaker 1: Wishi and the others to hurry up, get these lines in.
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Speaker 2: We gotta go. We don't want to wait for this cloud.
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Speaker 1: But it just was taking so long to pull in
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Speaker 1: these lines, and before long, these weird gray clouds had
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Speaker 1: moved directly over them and blocked out the sun. It
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Speaker 1: was like it was nighttime all over again. And as
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Speaker 1: soon as these clouds were right above them, a Wishi
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Speaker 1: and the others they just stopped and looked up, and
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Speaker 1: suddenly it started to rain, except not normal rain.
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Speaker 2: It was like this.
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Speaker 1: Weird milky substance, like gray milky color, and it was
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Speaker 1: also hot, and so a Wishi put his hands out
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Speaker 1: and he cupped all this weird liquid in his hands,
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Speaker 1: and nobody knew what it was. And then before long
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Speaker 1: the rain turned into sleet, still kind of gray and milky,
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Speaker 1: and then the sleet turned into what looked like snow,
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Speaker 1: and so Owishi and the others they had their hands
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Speaker 1: out still and they were catching these weird snowflakes, but
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Speaker 1: they didn't melt in their hands. They just kind of
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Speaker 1: pulled on their hand and just sat there. Now, Owishi
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Speaker 1: and the others were definitely unsettled by this snow and
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Speaker 1: frankly by everything that had happened that morning. They really
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Speaker 1: did not understand what was going on. But there was
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Speaker 1: something kind of incredible about this weird substance that was
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Speaker 1: coming out of the sky, to the point where many
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Speaker 1: of the fishermen on board grabbed bags and saved some
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Speaker 1: of this weird, mushy snow stuff to bring back home
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Speaker 1: to maybe show their families and friends, or even to
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Speaker 1: give to science to see if maybe they could study
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Speaker 1: it and see what it was. And so after Owishi
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Speaker 1: and the rest of the crew had kind of gotten
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Speaker 1: over the novelty of this weird snow coming out of
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Speaker 1: the sky, they just got right back to work pulling
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Speaker 1: in these lines. And the whole time, remember or they're
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Speaker 1: getting dumped on by this weird stuff that's not melting,
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Speaker 1: and it's building up on the deck to the point
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Speaker 1: where they have to stop what they're doing and shovel
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Speaker 1: this stuff off the deck just to continue.
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Speaker 2: Pulling in the lines.
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Speaker 1: And for hours and hours they did that, just under
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Speaker 1: this weird snowstorm. And then finally, right around noon, all
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Speaker 1: the lines had been pulled in, and the ship's captain
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Speaker 1: turned the wheel and they began heading towards port. The
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Speaker 1: next morning, Owi Shei woke up inside of his bunk
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Speaker 1: on board the Lucky Dragon number five. It would take
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Speaker 1: several days to make it all the way back to port,
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Speaker 1: and when Oihi woke up, he.
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Speaker 2: Was suddenly struck with this intense nausea, and so he.
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Speaker 1: Got up and stumbled his way into the bathroom, and
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Speaker 1: just kind of out of instinct, he grabbed his toothbrush
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Speaker 1: and began brushing his teeth, and as he did this,
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Speaker 1: he had this weird feeling that his teeth felt like
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Speaker 1: they were loose, that if he brushed too hard with
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Speaker 1: his toothbrush, that he could knock his teeth clear out
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Speaker 1: of his jaw.
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Speaker 2: And then when.
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Speaker 1: Owishi spit into the sink, he saw there was all
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Speaker 1: this blood, and so Owishi began to panic, and he
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Speaker 1: opened up his mouth and he stared in the mirror
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Speaker 1: to see if maybe he had lost some teeth, but
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Speaker 1: his teeth looked okay. But again, it just everything felt wrong,
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Speaker 1: and he felt so sick, and so Owishi he left
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Speaker 1: the bathroom and went upstairs to the top deck, and
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Speaker 1: when he got up there he saw many of the
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Speaker 1: other members of the crew, and they looked terrible. Their
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Speaker 1: skin was a weird gray color, and some of them
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Speaker 1: had blisters all over their skin. And so to Owishi
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Speaker 1: and to the other crew members, it now seemed kind
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Speaker 1: of obvious that whatever was coming out of the sky,
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Speaker 1: that weird milky substance, and that weird snow that didn't melt.
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Speaker 1: You know, clearly it must be toxic in some way,
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Speaker 1: or maybe it's led to some horrible allergic reaction. And
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Speaker 1: so Owishi and the others began referring to the stuff
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Speaker 1: that came out of the sky as death ash, and
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Speaker 1: the fishermen who had gathered up a lot of this
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Speaker 1: death ash into bags to bring back home were now
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Speaker 1: too scared to even touch the bags. Like they wanted
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Speaker 1: to take the bags and dump the contents overboard, but
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Speaker 1: the fear of interacting with that weird death ash was
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Speaker 1: too much, And so there were these bags it draped
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Speaker 1: all over the ship that nobody went near, that contained
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Speaker 1: this stuff. And over the next few days that the
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Speaker 1: Lucky Dragon number five continued its journey towards Port, Owishi
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Speaker 1: and the rest of the crew members continued to get
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Speaker 1: sicker and sicker. In fact, on one day, Owishi was
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Speaker 1: outside unfurling one of the sails, and as he was
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Speaker 1: hoisting this rope, he noticed the rope was covered in blood,
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Speaker 1: and then when he looked at his hands, he realized
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Speaker 1: it was because his hands were basically disintegrating as he
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Speaker 1: was touching the rope, like his skin was just falling apart.
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Speaker 1: And then in addition to his skin falling off, Owishi's
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Speaker 1: hair began falling out in huge clumps.
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Speaker 2: And he was not alone.
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Speaker 1: Many of the other crew members on board the Lucky
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Speaker 1: Dragon number five had the same things going on.
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Speaker 2: It was like everybody was just totally deteriorating, and.
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Speaker 1: They all knew it had to be connected to whatever
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Speaker 1: the heck they had heard and seen when there was
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Speaker 1: that explosion in the lights and the.
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Speaker 2: Stuff raining out of the sky.
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Speaker 1: They didn't know what it was, but it could not
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Speaker 1: be a coincidence that happened, And now this was happening
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Speaker 1: to them. And so finally, on March fourteenth, the crew
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Speaker 1: of the Lucky Dragon number five pulled into port in Yaizu, Japan,
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Speaker 1: and as they got off, they made this interesting decision
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Speaker 1: to not tell anyone what.
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Speaker 2: Happened to them.
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Speaker 1: They all had this fear that, you know, if it
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Speaker 1: got out that people knew what happened to them, that
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Speaker 1: somehow they'd get in trouble. And so they all decided
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Speaker 1: they would treat whatever was happening to them, but they
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Speaker 1: would do it kind of secretly and so Owishi as
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Speaker 1: soon as he left the boat, he went straight to
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Speaker 1: the doctor's office, and as best as he could, he
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Speaker 1: tried to kind of discreetly tell the doctor what had
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Speaker 1: happened during this fishing trip. And then he showed the
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Speaker 1: doctor all these lesions on his skin and the bald spots,
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Speaker 1: and the fact that he was so sick and that
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Speaker 1: his teeth felt loose. And the doctor's like, I got
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Speaker 1: no idea, what's wrong with you? And so all he
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Speaker 1: did was prescribe Owishi some zinc ointment to put on
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Speaker 1: all of these blisters and lesions on his skin. And
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Speaker 1: he told Owishi that you know, this should work, It
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Speaker 1: should clear everything up, and you should be okay, but
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Speaker 1: you know, come back if this ointment doesn't work. A
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Speaker 1: few hours later, a woman was inside of her home
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Speaker 1: in the port city of Yaizu, right near where the
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Speaker 1: Lucky Dragon number five had docked, when she heard a
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Speaker 1: knock on her front door, and so she put her
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Speaker 1: broom up against the wall. She walked to the front door.
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Speaker 1: She opened it up, and standing right outside was this
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Speaker 1: horrible looking man who had gray skin and lesions all
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Speaker 1: over him and all these bald spots, and he was
17:20
Speaker 1: smiling and his teeth were all red, like there was
17:23
Speaker 1: blood all over his teeth, and for a second she
17:25
Speaker 1: thought about slamming the door, but then she looked more
17:28
Speaker 1: closely and she realized it was her neighbor Oishi. As
17:31
Speaker 1: soon as she realized this, she said, Owishi, what happened
17:33
Speaker 1: to you? And he just kind of shrugged his shoulders
17:36
Speaker 1: like he didn't have a way to explain all of this,
17:38
Speaker 1: and then he held out a small gray package and
17:40
Speaker 1: he just said, you know, here's some extra fish that
17:42
Speaker 1: we caught on the last fishing trip I was on.
17:45
Speaker 2: I just wanted to give it to you.
17:46
Speaker 1: And the woman, who was still totally caught off guard
17:49
Speaker 1: by how terrible Oi Shi looked, she just turned and
17:52
Speaker 1: pointed at her kitchen table, telling Oishi to put the
17:55
Speaker 1: fish on the table, and so Awihi came inside and
17:58
Speaker 1: limped his way into the kitchen and put the package down,
18:00
Speaker 1: and then when he turned to leave, the woman stopped
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Speaker 1: him and she said, o Wishi, tell me what's going
18:05
Speaker 1: on here? You look horrible. You have all these bloody
18:07
Speaker 1: bandages on you. Was there a fire on the boat.
18:10
Speaker 1: Was there some sort of accident?
18:11
Speaker 2: You know?
18:12
Speaker 1: Tell me? And so Owishi you know, he looked down
18:14
Speaker 1: for a second, and then he looked back at her
18:16
Speaker 1: and said, I'm sorry, I can't tell you because again,
18:19
Speaker 1: remember Owishi and the rest of the crew had decided
18:21
Speaker 1: they were not going to share.
18:23
Speaker 2: Details of what happened.
18:24
Speaker 1: And so this woman, who really liked Oishi and wanted
18:26
Speaker 1: to make sure he was okay, she just said, okay,
18:29
Speaker 1: you don't got to tell me about it, but here,
18:30
Speaker 1: have a seat, you know, we'll catch up about other things.
18:33
Speaker 2: And so Owishi, you know, he.
18:34
Speaker 1: Nodded and took a seat inside the living room, and
18:37
Speaker 1: as he sat there, the woman went into the kitchen
18:39
Speaker 1: and she got a cup of water. She brought it
18:41
Speaker 1: back and she handed it to him, and Owishi he
18:43
Speaker 1: took the cup with a trembling hand, and he sat
18:45
Speaker 1: there drinking his water, just looking so terrible. And the
18:48
Speaker 1: woman she really didn't know what to say. She did
18:51
Speaker 1: not understand at all what was happening, but she could tell,
18:54
Speaker 1: you know, Owishi does not want to talk about it,
18:56
Speaker 1: and so to kind of break up the silence, she
18:58
Speaker 1: just began talking about stuff she had heard on the news,
19:01
Speaker 1: and the big news story that everybody was talking about
19:04
Speaker 1: was the science experiment that was done out near the
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Speaker 1: Marshall Islands. And when this woman talked about a science
19:10
Speaker 1: experiment and the Marshall Islands, Owishi dropped his glass and
19:14
Speaker 1: it shattered on the ground, and he just stared at
19:17
Speaker 1: this woman with a look of absolute terror on his face.
19:20
Speaker 1: And at this point Owishi decided he was not going
19:22
Speaker 1: to keep his story secret anymore, and so he told
19:25
Speaker 1: his neighbor what had happened out on the water, the explosions,
19:29
Speaker 1: the lights, the rain, the snow, all of it. And
19:31
Speaker 1: after he did, the woman became terrified and said, get
19:34
Speaker 1: out of my house, go, go, go, And so Owishi
19:37
Speaker 1: he got up and he kind of ran out of
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Speaker 1: the house, not really sure what was going on. And
19:41
Speaker 1: then the woman, after Awi Shi was gone, she turned
19:44
Speaker 1: and she realized the package of fish that Owishi had
19:47
Speaker 1: left was sitting inside of her kitchen, and so she
19:50
Speaker 1: screamed and she too ran.
19:52
Speaker 2: Out the door.
19:52
Speaker 1: Over the next few days, more and more of the
19:55
Speaker 1: fishermen from the Lucky Dragon Number five began to talk
19:59
Speaker 1: about what had happened and out on the water, and
20:01
Speaker 1: as those stories began to circulate, they began to make
20:04
Speaker 1: the news all over the world. And as this happened,
20:07
Speaker 1: fish markets all over Japan had to shut down and
20:10
Speaker 1: destroy thousands and thousands of pounds of fish in fear
20:14
Speaker 1: that it might have come from the Lucky Dragon number five.
20:17
Speaker 1: And the reason why everybody was so scared of coming
20:20
Speaker 1: in contact with anything that had been on board the
20:23
Speaker 1: Lucky Dragon, whether it was the fish or the people,
20:26
Speaker 1: is because on March first, nineteen fifty four, when Owishi
20:30
Speaker 1: was suddenly woken up by the bright light outside coming
20:33
Speaker 1: from the west, and then there was that loud explosion,
20:36
Speaker 1: and then the cloud and the rain and the snow,
20:38
Speaker 1: all of that.
20:39
Speaker 2: Was not a volcano. It was not an atomic bomb.
20:42
Speaker 2: It was not a media rite, it was not a fire.
20:44
Speaker 1: It was that science experiment that was talked about on
20:46
Speaker 1: the news. The US military was testing a brand new
20:50
Speaker 1: weapon that is quite possibly the most lethal weapon ever made.
20:55
Speaker 1: It's called a hydrogen bomb, and for reference, hydrogen bombs
20:59
Speaker 1: are a times more powerful than atomic bombs. Now, they
21:04
Speaker 1: detonated this hydrogen bomb far away from all of civilization. However,
21:08
Speaker 1: the Lucky Dragon number five was just close enough to
21:12
Speaker 1: this explosion that the crew on board the ship became
21:15
Speaker 1: the first humans in history to experience something called fallout,
21:20
Speaker 1: which is when deadly radioactive particles from this explosion get
21:25
Speaker 1: thrown up into the sky from the blast, and then
21:27
Speaker 1: they rained down on you like snow. That weird material
21:30
Speaker 1: they were feeling that they called death ash. That's the fallout.
21:33
Speaker 1: It's all radioactive. And in fact, the actual material itself
21:37
Speaker 1: that was raining down on them was coral reefs. They
21:40
Speaker 1: had basically been liquefied from this hydrogen blast. They got
21:44
Speaker 1: shot up into the sky and then that's what fell
21:46
Speaker 1: down on them.
21:47
Speaker 2: That's why it wasn't melting. It was coral reefs.
21:49
Speaker 1: And so the reason Oishi and the rest of the
21:51
Speaker 1: crew got so sick and their skin began falling off
21:54
Speaker 1: and their hair began falling off was because of their
21:57
Speaker 1: contact with this fallout, this death ash. So once they
22:00
Speaker 1: began sharing their story of what happened out there and
22:03
Speaker 1: it began making the news, the crew of the Lucky
22:05
Speaker 1: Dragon was rounded up and sent to a special medical
22:08
Speaker 1: facility where they were quarantined, and unbelievably, only one of
22:12
Speaker 1: them died. He was the oldest crew member who had
22:15
Speaker 1: brought up that maybe the lights they had just seen
22:18
Speaker 1: was an atomic bomb. But even though the rest of
22:20
Speaker 1: the crew survived, they would spend the rest of their
22:23
Speaker 1: lives battling strange diseases and cancers, and many of them
22:27
Speaker 1: would become sterilized, and those that weren't their children often
22:30
Speaker 1: had birth defects. As for Oishi, he gave up being
22:34
Speaker 1: a fisherman and instead became a dry cleaner, but he
22:37
Speaker 1: wound up spending the bulk of the rest of his
22:39
Speaker 1: life being an anti bomb advocate and author until his
22:43
Speaker 1: death in twenty twenty one, when he would pass away
22:46
Speaker 1: at the age of eighty seven. In the winter of
22:53
Speaker 1: two thousand and one, inside of a southern California police department,
22:57
Speaker 1: a fax machine in the corner of the room suddenly
22:59
Speaker 1: came to life. A moment later, a few pieces of
23:02
Speaker 1: paper fell.
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Speaker 3: Out of the machine onto a tray, and a police
23:05
Speaker 3: officer walked over and began reading them, and as he did,
23:09
Speaker 3: his eyes went wide because the facts was a gold
23:12
Speaker 3: mine of evidence for an ongoing murder investigation that had
23:15
Speaker 3: begun to stall, so this was a major breakthrough. But
23:19
Speaker 3: as other officers rushed over to see the facts for themselves,
23:22
Speaker 3: they all started to feel.
23:24
Speaker 2: Like something was off about this facts.
23:26
Speaker 4: It just seemed too good to be true, but regardless,
23:29
Speaker 4: the police followed up on the contents of this facts,
23:32
Speaker 4: and sure enough, it did lead them to their killer. However,
23:35
Speaker 4: the killer was not who anyone thought.
23:37
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