Success underwater depends mostly on how you conduct yourself. Diving can be the most relaxing experience in the world. Your weight seems to disappear. Space travel will be available only to a few individuals for some time, but the oceans are available to almost everyone - now.

The ocean seemed like a sea of Eden. But now we are facing paradise lost.

There is an enormous amount to be learned about the sea; like most wildernesses, it has great potential.

If Darwin could get into a submarine and see what I've seen, thousand of feet beneath the ocean, I am just confident that he would be inspired to sit down and start writing all over again.

There are now more than 4,000 places in the sea around the world that have some kind of protection. The bad news: You have to look hard to find them. What you find instead is destructive fishing, mining, gas and oil exploration.

The Earth is a unique system in the universe, the only planet we know of that's hospitable for humankind.

All through college, I had frequently been the only girl in a science class - which wasn't such a bad deal.