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

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.

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.

I am really dedicated to understanding the planet/creature on which we live and know that means I must go beneath the sea to see 72 percent of what is going on.

You don't go to Gettysburg with a shovel, you don't take belt buckles off the Arizona.

I am an underwater explorer, not a treasure hunter.