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Mr. Pelly. Thank you very much. 



Mr. Lennon. It can be utilized out there. 



Mr. Pelly. Just a little insulation and it can go right in to Puget 

 Sound. 



Mr. Lennon". You have the record, gentlemen. 



It was engineered and configured and constructed for depths not 

 exceeding approximately 50 feet. 



Mr. Waller. Well, as long as you have an adequate internal pres- 

 sure that corresponds v^ith your external pressure — I am not an engi- 

 neer so I can speak very freely on these engineering subjects — I don't 

 see any reason why the habitat could not be used down to depths 

 of 150 feet. 



Mr. Lennon. You gentlemen have been introduced, the four of you. 

 I wonder if we could not have a word from each of you. 



Is there anything you want to say about your experience ? You say 

 you are delighted to be here. I say that we are delighted and honored 

 to have you gentlemen here and that applies to everyone identified 

 with this project. 



Mr. Van Derwalker. Thank you. 



Mr. Chairman and members of the committee, I am quite pleased to 

 be here this morning. I would like to express my interest in furthering 

 this type of work because if we are going to study the processes that 

 occur in the ocean we are going to have to be there to watch them. We 

 can get points of data and try to connect them but, in order to get some 

 contiiiuity to our study and particularly behavioral studies, I think 

 we will have to go down there. 



I want to say I enjoyed very much going down and living with the 

 fish, and look forward to an opportunity to do this again. I think if 

 we are to reap the wealth of the Continental Shelf that this is the way 

 to go. 



Thank you. 



Dr. Clifton. Mr. Chairman and members, I think that perhaps one 

 of our most important functions down there as marine scientists was 

 the evaluation of saturation diving from an underwater habitat as a 

 scientific tool. 



As for myself, when we began this experiment I really did not know 

 whether useful research could be conducted under the restraints with 

 which we had to operate, and I think Tektite demonstrated very well 

 that research can be done quite well from an underwater habitat. Par- 

 ticularly in my own field of geology in the exploitation and explora- 

 tion of mineral resources on the Continental Shelf. I think that the 

 underwater habitat indeed has a place in the future. 



Mr. Mahnken. Mr. Chairman and members, I would like to take 

 this opportunity to recommend Puget Sound as a possible site for a 

 future Tektite. 



Mr. Lennon. I commend you. 



You are not only a scientist and engineer and an aquanaut but you 

 are a politician, too. 



Mr. Mahnken. Thank you, sir. 



Mr. Lennon. Go ahead, sir. 



Mr. Mahnken. There is a large amount of interest in the scientific 

 community in the Puget Sound region for a habitat such as Tektite. 



