I mean, technology is amoral. It has no morality.
Where I live in Connecticut was ice a mile above my house, all the way back to the North Pole, about 15 million kilometers, that's a big ice cube. But then it started to melt. We're talking about the floods of our living history.
I'm a geophysicist and all my earth science books when I was a student, I had to give the wrong answer to get an A. We used to ridicule continental drift. It was something we laughed at. We learned of Marshall Kay's geosynclinal cycle, which is a bunch of crap.
I believe in just enriching the economy. And we're leaving so much on the table, 72 percent of the planet.
I am an underwater explorer, not a treasure hunter.
What drives me is exploration with a purpose, more the classic Royal Geographical Society genre.
I am a geologist.
You don't go to Gettysburg with a shovel, you don't take belt buckles off the Arizona.
The body is sort of a pain. It has to go to the bathroom. It has to be comfortable. But the spirit is indestructible. It can move at the speed of light.
Fifty percent of our country that we own, have all legal jurisdiction, have all rights to do whatever we want, lies beneath the sea and we have better maps of Mars than that 50 percent.
There's probably more history now preserved underwater than in all the museums of the world combined. And there's no law governing that history. It's finders keepers.
There's a long list of technologies that have now made it possible to carry out very precise search efforts in the deep sea.
You don't let a historic site rot.
Well, when I was a kid, I grew up in San Diego next to the ocean. The ocean was my friend - my best friend.
I prefer sayings over jokes.
I mean, there is amazing amount of oil and gas and other resources out beneath the sea. It's staggering.
Most of the southern hemisphere is unexplored. We had more exploration ships down there during Captain Cook's time than now. It's amazing.
