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?

There's probably more history now preserved underwater than in all the museums of the world combined. And there's no law governing that history. It's finders keepers.

The Titanic will protect itself.

My family came in 1635 from England and settled in Williamsburg. Shortly after, they split up; half went to New England and half stayed in Virginia. I'm a Virginian Ballard.

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

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

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