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.

Why are we ignoring the oceans? Why does NASA spend in one year what NOAA will spend in 1600 years? Why are we looking up? Why are we afraid of the ocean?

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

I believe in just enriching the economy. And we're leaving so much on the table, 72 percent of the planet.

NASA's annual budget for space exploration could fund NOAA's budget for ocean exploration for 1600 years.

Don't confuse facts with reality.

Everyone is an explorer. How could you possibly live your life looking at a door and not open it?