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

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.

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

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.

I would have to say my favorite place on Earth is Bora Bora.

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

I am an underwater explorer, not a treasure hunter.