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We know what the surface of the moon is better than we know what the surface of the sea floor is. -- James Garner
The Deep Flight Challenger technology is a game-changer for ocean exploration. -- Graham Hawkes
NASA's annual budget for space exploration could fund NOAA's budget for ocean exploration for 1600 years. -- Robert Ballard
There are more active volcanoes beneath the sea than on land by two orders of magnitude. -- Robert Ballard
Knowledge of the oceans is more than a matter of curiosity. Our very survival may hinge upon it. -- John F. Kennedy
Buoyed by water, he can fly in any direction-up, down, sideways-by merely flipping his hand. Under water, man becomes an archangel. -- Jacques Yves Cousteau
Fifty percent of the United States of America is underneath the ocean. And we have better maps of Mars than those areas. -- Robert Ballard
Most of the southern hemisphere is unexplored. We had more exploration ships down there during Captain Cook's time than now. It's amazing. -- Robert Ballard
It is a quiet and peaceful place - and a fitting place for the remains of this greatest of sea tragedies to rest. -- Robert Ballard
When one man, for whatever reason, has the opportunity to lead an extraordinary life, he has no right to keep it to himself. -- Jacques Yves Cousteau
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. -- Robert Ballard
The deep sea is the largest museum on earth, it contains more history than all the museums on land combined, and yet we're only now penetrating it. -- Robert Ballard
When we return wild animals to nature, we merely return them to what is already theirs. For man cannot give wild animals freedom, they can only take it away. -- Jacques Yves Cousteau
The future is in the hands of those who explore... and from all the beauty they discover while crossing perpetually receding frontiers, they develop for nature and for humankind an infinite love. -- Jacques Yves Cousteau
I liked to use my face mask more than the diving helmet for most occasions. I was learning to hold my breath longer now and could go down almost as deep without the helmet which limited my movements... -- Eugenie Clark
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. -- William Beebe
The configuration of the ocean-floor is of great interest to seismologists studying the movements of the Earth's crust. Oceanographers are also able to explain certain peculiarities of ocean currents by the contour of the ocean-bed. But enormous areas are still unexplored. -- Paul J. H. Schoemaker
It is probable that a greater number of monuments of the skill and industry of man will, in the course of the ages, be collected together in the bed of the ocean than will exist at any other time on the surface of the continents. -- Charles Lyell
A great number of soundings, mainly along the continental slope of the New England States were also taken by the vessels of the United States Fish Commission. Important soundings were made by the United States Fish Commission steamer ALBATROSS in the Caribbean, during the winter of 1883-1884. -- Alexander Agassiz
To indicate how large a part of the Earth is covered by the oceans, we might call attention to the fact that a whole hemisphere, with its center near New Zealand, would have only one-tenth of its area as dry land! And the average depth of the seas is over two miles. -- Paul J. H. Schoemaker
...It is a very remarkable fact that the species of shell-fish common to Greenland and Finmark are not all inhabitants of deep or moderately deep water .... That these littoral mollusks indicate by their presence on both sides of the Atlantic, some ancient continuity or contiguity of coast-line is what I firmly believe. -- Edward Forbes
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! -- Robert Ballard
Aside from its importance to many branches of science, a knowledge of the oceans has a practical value for mankind. The intelligent development of our fishing industries, the laying of oceanic cables, the proper construction of harbor-works, oceanic commerce and navigation, as well as long-range weather forecasting, are all dependent on an understanding of the ocean. -- Paul J. H. Schoemaker
Mission 31 pays homage to my grandfather's work and all aquanauts who have since followed his lead in the name of ocean exploration. -- Fabien Cousteau
There's this fabulous innovation ship called Unreasonable at Sea, where I'm a mentor. One of the companies there was called Protei, and they're an open hardware ocean exploration and monitoring idea. -- Megan Smith

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