Movies like 'The Abyss' and 'Jaws' make people think the ocean is threatening. It's not. It's very tranquil.

Science is about filling in the details.

Theres something just magical about flight. Period.

Pressure hulls collapse at the speed of sound. Once that starts, you're inside your own little imploding atomic bomb, and you're gone.

One time on a dive, I wound up drifting up in darkness surrounded by billions of photoluminescent creatures. It was a religious experience, one only a poet could do justice to.

I don't have to be smarter than anybody else. I've just plain worked harder and longer than anybody else.

The ocean is this beautiful, unexplored place. Why on Earth everyone isn't down there, I don't know.