It is a quiet and peaceful place - and a fitting place for the remains of this greatest of sea tragedies to rest.
Robert BallardWell, when I was a kid, I grew up in San Diego next to the ocean. The ocean was my friend - my best friend.
Robert BallardThe 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.
Robert Ballard