If you compare NASA's annual budget to explore the heavens, that one year budget would fund NOAA's budget to explore the oceans for 1,600 years.

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 would not let an adult drive my robot. You don't have enough gaming experience. But I will let a kid with no license take control of my vehicle system.

There are more active volcanoes beneath the sea than on land by two orders of magnitude.

My family came in 1635 from England and settled in Williamsburg. Shortly after, they split up; half went to New England and half stayed in Virginia. I'm a Virginian Ballard.

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

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