(http://bruce.org.uk/images/ap13recovery2.jpg)
This is a particularly poignant photo taken by one of the dive team of the three Apollo 13 crew only moments after leaving the CM following a successful splash down in the Atlantic.
You see Commander Jim Lovell still directing operations despite the mission ending once the hatch was opened! I like to think he was insisting that Fred Haise (who he appears to be pointing at) should be lifted off first. Fred was ill. He contracted a urinary infection during the mission and probably the freezing temperatures the crew experienced were not too conducive to getting the infection under control.
This was also the first warmth the three astronauts had felt since the explosion that caused the crisis that aborted their moon landing and pre-empted an early return to Earth.
Courtesy of NASA
I apologise to all of you as I have incorrectly stated that it is the Atlantic ocean where the Apollo mission splashed down instead of the calmer and warmer Pacific.
Sorry.
RB