Even politicians go off the deep end, of course. Take Senator Lowell Weicker and Representative Bill Alexander, who began the August congressional recess with a three-day stay under water off Grand Bahama Island. The pair, both boosters of oceanic research, joined two scientists in the 16-ft. hydrolab operated by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Apart from a malfunction that sent the lab's temperature soaring to 90° at one point, the amateur aquanauts had little trouble adjusting to their watery environment, or to their spartan diet of soup, fruit, peanut butter and crackers....
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