We live in a time where we have more extinction happening on our planet than since the dinosaurs were wiped out 50 million years ago.

I am really inspired when I am in an experience, at the front lines of conservation, and I see someone - a woman, a man, a child, a person - who has given up an opportunity to have a family, an opportunity for financial riches, even an opportunity for security, [to] put their whole life on the line to protect a species.

The natural resources we've depended on, if the places where they exist are not stable, our own livelihood and our health is put at risk.

We know that when push comes to shove, [we can] drive ourselves to save our planet.

In my heart, ever since I [was] a little kid, I've been an explorer.

We live in uncertain times when it comes to the future of life on Earth.

The number one issue that Ocean Mysteries has opened my eyes to is, no matter where you are, whether you're on a beach in Hawaii, you're diving in the Pacific, you're in a remote archipelago, or you're in the middle of nowhere - I am blown away and sobered and crushed, emotionally crushed, by the amount of marine debris, of garbage, that is now in our ocean.