My familiarity with the successful use of very long steel ropes for mining purposes naturally suggested their adaptation to the new purpose… — Alexander Agassiz Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Palaeontological research exhibits, beyond question, the phenomenon of provinces in time, as well as provinces in space. Moreover, all our knowledge of… — Edward Forbes Copy Share Image
If you compare NASA's annual budget to explore the heavens, that one year budget would fund NOAA's budget to explore the oceans… — Robert Ballard Copy Share Image
My final question: Why are we not looking at moving out onto the sea? Why do we have programs to build a… — Robert Ballard Copy Share Image
Knowledge of the oceans is more than a matter of curiosity. Our very survival may hinge upon it. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Walking aft a few feet we stand at the steering gear of the ship. There is no cozy; wheel-house on the bridge… — Paul J. H. Schoemaker Copy Share Image
There are more active volcanoes beneath the sea than on land by two orders of magnitude. — Robert Ballard Copy Share Image
I liked to use my face mask more than the diving helmet for most occasions. I was learning to hold my breath… — Eugenie Clark Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
There is a river in the ocean. In the severest droughts it never fails, and in the mightiest floods it never overflows.… — Matthew Fontaine Maury Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
...It is a very remarkable fact that the species of shell-fish common to Greenland and Finmark are not all inhabitants of deep… — Edward Forbes Copy Share Image
To indicate how large a part of the Earth is covered by the oceans, we might call attention to the fact that… — Paul J. H. Schoemaker Copy Share Image
Forever may it remain that way. And may God bless these now-found souls. — Robert Ballard Copy Share Image
When we return wild animals to nature, we merely return them to what is already theirs. For man cannot give wild animals… — Jacques Yves Cousteau Copy Share Image
When ... we realize the possibilities of deep sea life still unknown to us, every haul of the dredge should be welcomed… — William Beebe Copy Share Image
Fifty percent of the United States of America is underneath the ocean. And we have better maps of Mars than those areas. — Robert Ballard Copy Share Image
Could the waters of the Atlantic be drawn off, so as to expose to view this great sea-gash, which separates continents, and… — Matthew Fontaine Maury Copy Share Image
Aside from its importance to many branches of science, a knowledge of the oceans has a practical value for mankind. The intelligent… — Paul J. H. Schoemaker Copy Share Image
I am absolutely enraptured by the atmosphere of a wreck. A dead ship is the house of a tremendous amount of life-fish… — Jacques Yves Cousteau Copy Share Image
We know what the surface of the moon is better than we know what the surface of the sea floor is. — James Garner Copy Share Image
I may say that here, as in most cases where the operations of nature interfere with the designs of man, it is… — Louis Agassiz Copy Share Image
The configuration of the ocean-floor is of great interest to seismologists studying the movements of the Earth's crust. Oceanographers are also able… — Paul J. H. Schoemaker Copy Share Image
The deep sea is the largest museum on earth, it contains more history than all the museums on land combined, and yet… — Robert Ballard Copy Share Image
