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!

Well, when I was a kid, I grew up in San Diego next to the ocean. The ocean was my friend - my best friend.

I think the most important thing people can do to save our planet and the human race is to empower women!

I prefer sayings over jokes.

What drives me is exploration with a purpose, more the classic Royal Geographical Society genre.

I can't travel without Sudoku.

Most of the time you are growing up, people tell you what's wrong with you. Your coach tells you, your parents tell you, the teachers tell you when they grade you. I think that's very good in the early stages, because it helps you then develop skills. But at some point in your career, generally I think when you are in your teens, you look in a mirror and you have to say, despite all the bumps and warts, "I like that person I'm looking at, and let's just do our best."