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

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

The crazy thing is we live on an ocean planet - nobody gets that yet.

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

Science is about filling in the details.

Scientists are always the ones who head into the ocean, but I want to take writers and politicians, people who can convey the beauty that is there and perhaps do something to take care of it.

Theres something just magical about flight. Period.