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Without the oceans there would be no life on Earth.

The ocean is our planet's life support system, yet in my travels and at home, I've seen its degradation firsthand.

I really feel that there are things in the ocean that we have no idea about.

We need to respect the oceans and take care of them as if our lives depended on it. Because they do.

The oceans are the last free place on the planet.

Oceans are one of the most important things in the world now and that is a national security threat of the United States of America, to be honest with you. That is why seeing the habitat destroyed is so short-sighted by us.

I think the concept of the sea is very important.

As a child, I was aware of the widely-held attitude that the ocean is so big, so resilient that we could use the sea as the ultimate place to dispose of anything we did not want, from garbage and nuclear wastes to sludge from sewage to entire ships that had reached the end of their useful life.

We need a NASA-like organization for ocean exploration, because we need to be exploring and protecting our life support systems here on Earth.

Seventy percent of the planet is covered with water, and there's so much we can be doing with oceans, and it was one of the frontiers that people have more or less abandoned.