Fascinations breeds preparedness, and preparedness, survival.

Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water.

Reputations rise and fall almost as regularly as the tides.

Oceanography is a terrific career because gradually we seem to be coming around to realize that we had better become as acquainted with the seventy percent of our planet that is covered by water as we are with the dark side of the moon.

Without sharks, you take away the apex predator of the ocean, and you destroy the entire food chain

There's nothing in the sea this fish would fear. Other fish run from bigger things. That's their instinct. But this fish doesn't run from anything. He doesn't fear.

Writing is sweat and drudgery most of the time. And you have to love it in order to endure the solitude and the discipline.