I learned how to order my thoughts, and most important, learned how to develop a plan. I discovered the power of a plan. If you can plan it out, and it seems logical to you, you can do it. And that was the secret to success.

Most of the southern hemisphere is unexplored. We had more exploration ships down there during Captain Cook's time than now. It's amazing.

Everything I'm going to present to you was not in my textbooks when I went to school ... not even in my college textbooks. I'm a geophysicist, and [in] all my Earth science books when I was a student - I had to give the wrong answer to get an A.

The deep sea is the largest museum on earth, it contains more history than all the museums on land combined, and yet we're only now penetrating it.

If you plan it out, and it seems logical to you, then you can do it. I discovered the power of a plan.

It is a quiet and peaceful place - and a fitting place for the remains of this greatest of sea tragedies to rest.

I mean, there is amazing amount of oil and gas and other resources out beneath the sea. It's staggering.