Fifty percent of our country that we own, have all legal jurisdiction, have all rights to do whatever we want, lies beneath the sea and we have better maps of Mars than that 50 percent.

The DEEP SEA has more history in it than all the museums of the world-combined.

The Titanic will protect itself.

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

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

You don't let a historic site rot.

The fact that this chain of life existed [at volcanic vents on the seafloor] in the black cold of the deep sea and was utterly independent of sunlight - previously thought to be the font of all Earth's life - has startling ramifications. If life could flourish there, nurtured by a complex chemical process based on geothermal heat, then life could exist under similar conditions on planets far removed from the nurturing light of our parent star, the Sun.