I believe in just enriching the economy. And we're leaving so much on the table, 72 percent of the planet..

The fact that this chain of life existed [at volcanic vents on the seafloor] in the black cold of the deep sea and was utterly independent of sunligh….

I would not let an adult drive my robot. You don't have enough gaming experience. But I will let a kid with no license take control of my vehicle sys….

Everything I'm going to present to you was not in my textbooks when I went to school ... not even in my college textbooks. I'm a geophysicist, and [i….

There's a long list of technologies that have now made it possible to carry out very precise search efforts in the deep sea..

The Titanic will protect itself..

You don't let a historic site rot..

I think the most important thing people can do to save our planet and the human race is to empower women!.

You don't go to Gettysburg with a shovel, you don't take belt buckles off the Arizona..

I mean, there is amazing amount of oil and gas and other resources out beneath the sea. It's staggering..

It is a quiet and peaceful place - and a fitting place for the remains of this greatest of sea tragedies to rest..

If you compare NASA's annual budget to explore the heavens, that one year budget would fund NOAA's budget to explore the oceans for 1,600 years..

There's probably more history now preserved underwater than in all the museums of the world combined. And there's no law governing that history. It's….

I am an underwater explorer, not a treasure hunter..

I mean, technology is amoral. It has no morality..

There are more active volcanoes beneath the sea than on land by two orders of magnitude..

So, you know, I think the age of exploration is just beginning, not ending, on our planet..

I am really dedicated to understanding the planet/creature on which we live and know that means I must go beneath the sea to see 72 percent of what i….

I love all of the Earth..

I can't travel without Sudoku..

Fifty percent of the United States of America is underneath the ocean. And we have better maps of Mars than those areas..