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.

What drives me is exploration with a purpose, more the classic Royal Geographical Society genre.

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

There's a long list of technologies that have now made it possible to carry out very precise search efforts in the deep sea.

I think the most important thing people can do to save our planet and the human race is to empower women!

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.

I would have to say my favorite place on Earth is Bora Bora.