Don't confuse facts with reality.

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

I prefer sayings over jokes.

I am an underwater explorer, not a treasure hunter.

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

The fact that this chain of life existed [at volcanic vents on the seafloor] in the black cold of the deep sea and was utterly independent of sunlight - previously thought to be the font of all Earth's life - has startling ramifications. If life could flourish there, nurtured by a complex chemical process based on geothermal heat, then life could exist under similar conditions on planets far removed from the nurturing light of our parent star, the Sun.

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