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Dr. Rechnitzer. That is correct. 



Mr. King. So it all comes from above ? 



Dr. Rechnitzer. It comes from above. 



One individual will eat another, and this chain continues all the 

 way down to the sea floor. 



Mr. King. We have seen drawings frequently of artists' conception 

 of these marine creatures with these — well, in fact, some of them. 

 have been photographed at not such great depths, with the big pop- 

 eyes, carrying little lamps on the end of these proboscises, or what- 

 ever it is. Did you see any of those weird creations on the bottom? 

 The fish that you described, Lieutenant Walsh, when you were here 

 before, sounded like a very conventional fish with conventional eye-. 

 and so on. 



Lieutenant Walsh. That is right. 



Mr. King. Did you see the weird type ? 



Lieutenant Walsh. No. I have never personally sighted such 

 beasts. Of course, they do exist, and I believe perhaps Andy has in 

 one of his dives, but I have not. 



Mr. King. If that fish had been brought up would it have exploded 

 because of the pressure being released ? 



Dr. Rechnitzer. No, it would be extended a small amount, just the 

 amount you can compress any liquid such as are included in most of 

 our tissues. So it would be only an expansion of maybe 7 percent. 

 They would come up intact. This is why we have our large collection 

 of deep sea fishes. 



Mr. King. And would live? 



Dr. Rechnitzer. It would most likely die of heat prostration, rather 

 than suffer from a change in pressure, because of coining up from cold 

 waters into the warm surface waters. 



Mr. King. Then we have had to relearn, or unlearn a lot of lessons. 

 as a result of your experience ; is that right ? 



Dr. Rechnitzer. We feel we have, yes. 



Mr. King. What you testified to here, and the last time you were 

 here, was rather contrary to some of the things I have read, for exam- 

 ple, in Life's, The World Around Us, that came out 5 or G years ago. 



I think you said several things that constituted quite an improve- 

 ment on what they said. 



That is all I have, Mr. Chairman. 



Mr. Anfuso. Thank you, Mr. King. 



Mr. Fulton, we are through, except for you. 



Mr. Fulton. Well, as a newspaper man, might I say you made one 

 tremendous mistake when you were down here, you didn't even set' :i 

 sen monster or a Soviet submarine. 



Mr. Miller. They are scientists. 



Mr. Fulton. You saw neither one of those ? 



Dr. Rechnitzer. Perhaps that showed that the Soviets couldri'l 

 do it. 



Mr. Anfuso. Right. 



Mi-. Fulton. T am interested seriously, though, in how you were 

 funded for your current operations. In the current fiscal year are 

 your funds adequate? 



Secondly, are your equipment and instruments adequate? 



