People love the ocean. People are always asking me why I don't study the ocean, because, after all, I live in Hawaii. I tell them that it's because the ocean is a lonely, empty place.
When I was younger, I wanted to be a marine biologist, among other things.
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?
I swam with my first shark in the 1980s. I was 20 miles off the coast of Rhode Island, working with a group of marine scientists. Late in the day, a 5-foot long blue shark swam into our chum slick. For the next hour, I marveled at the animal's stunning indigo color and the elegant way she moved effortlessly through the sea.
There is another domain that we consider relevant and having good prospects - marine biology. For many years this region [Russian Far East] has been home for one of the leading institutes of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Marine Biology.
I want to be a scientist who studies the ocean when I grow up. I would go out to sea, and scuba dive, and find new things, and National Geographic will hire me.” Sure, Nudge. Probably around the time I become president.
The Deep Flight Challenger technology is a game-changer for ocean exploration.
I am an underwater explorer, not a treasure hunter.
The Jacques Cousteau shows actually got me very excited about the fact that there's an alien world here on Earth.
When ... we realize the possibilities of deep sea life still unknown to us, every haul of the dredge should be welcomed by an expectant enthusiasm equaled in other fields only by the possible hope of communication with our sister planets.
When I was six, all I dreamt about was becoming a diver on Jacques Cousteau's boat, the famous Calypso.
Their brilliant audio expert, who is a marine biologist, should really be looking after Flipper
If you compare NASA's annual budget to explore the heavens, that one year budget would fund NOAA's budget to explore the oceans for 1,600 years.
Twenty-five years ago nobody knew much about white sharks.
Marine biology was something I was into during high school and the beginning of college.
When I was a little kid, I always wanted to be an oceanographer.
I have made hundreds of dives in submersibles, with each dive holding the promise of seeing an organism or a behavior that no one has ever seen before. But I have always wondered about the animals and behaviors that we're not seeing because our bright lights and loud thrusters scare them away.
The quickest way to destroy ocean science is to take human explorers out of the water
I studied marine biology, even taught marine science before I got into animation, so I had an interest in that field and those animals.
We went out and tagged 17 sharks and watched where they went. The data was amazing.
I've gone on a research expedition in the Atlantic Ocean before. I was sick for the entire week after that.
Deep ocean drilling is not new.
I have always loved marine biology and that is what I studied in school. I am hoping to build a marine sanctuary that will also be educational, an eco preserve and a school, perhaps in Costa Rica, that is one of my dreams and goals.
The amazing thing about the sea is that it is perhaps the last truly unexplored frontier; most oceanographers estimate that only about ninety-five per cent of the sea has been studied. Meanwhile, the oceans are believed to contain more animals than exist on land, a majority of which have never been discovered.
I have in hands, now, specimens of bottom from t he Gulf Stream, obtained by Lieutenant Craven, and I can say that they are among the most interesting that I have ever seen.
