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

Everyone loves to fly and flying underwater is even better than flying in air because there are things around you.

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

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

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

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

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.