Ocean Discovery Quotes

If you ever really want to get away from it all and see something that you have never seen, and have an excellent chance of seeing something no one has ever seen, get in a sub. You climb in, seal the hatch, turn on a little oxygen, turn on the scrubber, which removes the CO2 in the air you breathe, and they chuck you overboard. Down you go.

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

As a species, we've always been discoverers and adventurers, and space and the deep ocean are some of the last frontiers.

The Jacques Cousteau shows actually got me very excited about the fact that there's an alien world here on Earth.

When I was six, all I dreamt about was becoming a diver on Jacques Cousteau's boat, the famous Calypso.

Since the middle of the 20th century, more has been learnt about the ocean than during all preceding human history; at the same time, more has been lost.

Being able to breathe underwater would be sweet. There is so much life underneath the water that we don't know about. I would love to check out the bottom of the ocean to see what's going on down there.

I've had the joy of spending thousands of hours under the sea. I wish I could take people along to see what I see, and to know what I know.

One of the things that's frustrated me as a deep-sea explorer is how many animals there probably are in the ocean that we know nothing about because of the way we explore the ocean.