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Mr. D’Amours. Excuse me. Before this question is answered, I 
will call attention to the fact that it is now 11:26, and we are going 
to continue trying to get you out at 11:25, Captain Cousteau. It may 
have some effect upon the length of your answer. 
Captain CousTEAu. Thank you. I think that Japan today is one of 
the worst polluters. I would say so. 
Mr. HERTEL. One brief question. We welcomed you to the Great 
Lakes of Michigan and the surrounding States, and I wondered 
how you found the environment of the Great Lakes when you vis- 
ited there? 
Captain CousTEAU. When Calypso went to the Great Lakes, we 
did not enter Lake Michigan. We went to all the other lakes, and 
we were very pleased, in Lake Superior, to be able to drink the 
lake’s water. The water of Lake Superior was drinkable, and we 
took advantage of that on board the ship. Lake Huron was almost 
drinkable and the other lakes, no question, no more. 
Mr. HERTEL. We look forward to your returning. 
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. 
Mr. D’Amours. Thank you, Mr. Hertel. 
Captain Cousteau, thank you once again for going through all 
this trouble to be with us. We wish you a good trip back to Paris. 
Jean Michel, we also look forward to seeing you soon. 
I hope you are as impressed and surprised as we are, Captain, 
with the self-discipline of the members of this committee. That was 
a lot of members questioning you in a very short period of time, 
which I think maybe sets a record for the U.S. Congress. 
Captain Cousteau. Mr. Chairman, I am delighted to have had 
the opportunity to come. If I may contribute whatever I can, I am 
always available. 
Mr. D’Amours. You already have. Thank you, Captain. 
Our next witness is the Honorable Edward Koch, mayor of New 
York City, a former colleague of a good many of us and a personal 
friend of very many of us. I will turn to the gentleman from New 
York, Mr. Biaggi, to introduce Mayor Koch. 
Mr. Brace. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. 
You stated that Mayor Koch is a former colleague and a clearly 
respected colleague. He has gone on to greater things and aspires 
to even greater heights in the field of politics, but more important- 
ly, he has never severed the umbilical cord with this body in a rela- 
tionship that has inured to the benefit of the people of New York 
City because of the respect and esteem with which he is held by his 
colleagues. We recall with fondness his many efforts to deal with 
critical issues over the period in which he has served and his very 
successful results in that area. 
Today, he is accompanied by the commissioner of ports and ter- 
minals, Ms. Linda Seale, who has been most cooperative with the 
Subcommittee on Merchant Marine, which I chair, and the com- 
missioner of the department of environmental protection, Mr. 
Joseph McGough. 
Eddy, we welcome you as friend, as colleague, as witness, and we 
hope, soon, as the next Governor. 
