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Mr. Waller. No, sir. There really were not any budget overruns. 



Mr. Rogers. Finally, the four of you are still on good speaking terms 

 and are good friends after living together for 2 months. 



Mr. Waller. Probably even more so now than before because we de- 

 pended quite a bit on each other down there. 



Mr. Rogers. We commend you and I know the entire Nation is grate- 

 ful for your service. 



Thank you. 



Mr. Waller. Thank you. 



Mr. Lennon. Let me announce that we have a seventeen minute film 

 and as you know the first order of business on the floor is the considera- 

 tion of the maritime authorization legislation, and I hope we get at 

 least the quorum. 



With your permission I think we ought to go ahead now with the film 

 and then stay in session as long as we can for questions. 



We are delighted that you in the audience are here and you are wel- 

 come to see this film. Can you find yourselves seats so that you can see 

 the film? 



(Film shown.) 



Mr. Lennon. Gentlemen, are there any questions now ? 



We will go as long as we can. 



The gentleman from Virginia. 



Mr. Downing. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. 



I would like to add my compliments and congratulations for the 

 splendid job that you gentlemen did. I think it is a great step forward. 

 Since one of the prime reasons was behavorial problems, if any, were 

 there any behavorial problems ? 



Mr. Van Derwalker. No, we got along just fine. I don't think we 

 had any serious problems among the four crew members. Early in the 

 dive we decided that if there were any little things that we did that 

 another member did not like we should bring it out immediately and 

 not let these things smoulder. We did. Connie had a compulsion to 

 clean up everything. We could never find anything when we went back 

 to our mess. We asked him to just leave our mess where it was. He 

 cooperated and we did not have any problems thereafter. 



I think we did have some confrontations with the surface group 

 and this may have been an outlet as some of the psychologists have 

 suggested, but I think we civilians and some of the military think in 

 a different way and this could have been a problem. I think once we 

 got to laiow each other things went very smoothly. 



Mr. Downing. Did the fact that you knew somebody was looking at 

 you affect your behavior in any way ? 



Mr. Van Derwalker. I was very conscious of this at the first of the 

 mission for probably 2 or 3 days at the most. Having people watch us 

 on the television did not bother me at all. However, you do like to keep 

 some of your conversations private and this may have influenced us 

 somewhat, although I don't think it was very serious. 



Mr. Downing. One last question. 



What was the most disagreeable facet of your life in the habitat? 



Mr. Van Derwalker. I think the frustration of not being able to go 

 out and spend more time in the water. I would have liked to have been 



