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.

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

I learned how to order my thoughts, and most important, learned how to develop a plan. I discovered the power of a plan. If you can plan it out, and it seems logical to you, you can do it. And that was the secret to success.

It's not a huge surprise that there are habitations at the bottom of the Black Sea.

The greatest discoveries all start with the question "Why?"

Great is the person who plants a tree knowing he will never sit under it.

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.