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

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?

Forever may it remain that way. And may God bless these now-found souls.

There's a long list of technologies that have now made it possible to carry out very precise search efforts in the deep sea.

You don't go to Gettysburg with a shovel, you don't take belt buckles off the Arizona.

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!

You can only inspire when you give people a new way of looking at the world in which they live.