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.

Well, when I was a kid, I grew up in San Diego next to the ocean. The ocean was my friend - my best friend.

I am an underwater explorer, not a treasure hunter.

I prefer sayings over jokes.

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

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.

Almost a quarter of our planet is a single mountain range and we didn't enter it until after Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin went to the moon. So we went to the moon, played golf up there, before we went to the largest feature on our own planet.