Fifty percent of the United States of America is underneath the ocean. And we have better maps of Mars than those areas.

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.

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

I am really dedicated to understanding the planet/creature on which we live and know that means I must go beneath the sea to see 72 percent of what is going on.

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

I would not let an adult drive my robot. You don't have enough gaming experience. But I will let a kid with no license take control of my vehicle system.

I mean, technology is amoral. It has no morality.