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We've explored very little of the ocean. We really don't know what's out there. But people think we've figured it all out.

Most people can't see the connection between their own lives and the oceans.

The crazy thing is we live on an ocean planet - nobody gets that yet.

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.

There is so much life underneath the water that we don't know about.

We've only explored about five percent of our ocean. There are great discoveries yet to be made down there, fantastic creatures representing millions of years of evolution and possibly bioactive compounds that could benefit us in ways that we can't even yet imagine.

Far and away, the greatest threat to the ocean, and thus to ourselves, is ignorance. But we can do something about that.

We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.

We've only explored about 5% of our ocean. There are great discoveries yet to be made down there - fantastic creatures representing millions of years of evolution and possibly bioactive compounds that could benefit us in ways we can't even imagine.

I think there's so much we don't know and the unknown in the ocean; every 10 years or so, we find some fossil that's been there before mankind.