We are living in an interminable succession of absurdities imposed by the myopic logic of short-term thinking.

I said that the oceans were sick but they're not going to die. There is no death possible in the oceans - there will always be life - but they're getting sicker every year.

The awareness of our environment came progressively in all countries with different outlets.

Farming as we do it is hunting, and in the sea we act like barbarians.

I was playing when I invented the aqualung. I think play is the most serious thing in the world.

Man has only to sink beneath the surface and he is free.

I am absolutely enraptured by the atmosphere of a wreck. A dead ship is the house of a tremendous amount of life-fish and plants. The mixture of life and death is mysterious, even religious. There is the same sense of peace and mood that you feel on entering a cathedral.