I mean, there is amazing amount of oil and gas and other resources out beneath the sea. It's staggering.

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.

So, you know, I think the age of exploration is just beginning, not ending, on our planet.

I love all of the Earth.

The deep sea is the largest museum on earth, it contains more history than all the museums on land combined, and yet we're only now penetrating it.

My final question: Why are we not looking at moving out onto the sea? Why do we have programs to build a habitation on Mars and we have programs to look at colonizing the Moon but we do not have a program looking at how we colonize our own planet, and the technology is at hand!

It is a quiet and peaceful place - and a fitting place for the remains of this greatest of sea tragedies to rest.