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Ocean Exploration Quotes by Robert Ballard
- It is a quiet and peaceful place - and a fitting place for the remains of this greatest of sea tragedies to rest.
- Most of the southern hemisphere is unexplored. We had more exploration ships down there during Captain Cook's time than now. It's amazing.
- There are more active volcanoes beneath the sea than on land by two orders of magnitude.
- 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.
- Forever may it remain that way. And may God bless these now-found souls.
- NASA's annual budget for space exploration could fund NOAA's budget for ocean exploration for 1600 years.
- Fifty percent of the United States of America is underneath the ocean. And we have better maps of Mars than those areas.
- 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…
- 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…
More Ocean Exploration Quotes
- It is a quiet and peaceful place - and a fitting place for the remains of this greatest of sea tragedies to… — 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
- There are more active volcanoes beneath the sea than on land by two orders of magnitude. — Robert Ballard
- 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
- Mission 31 pays homage to my grandfather's work and all aquanauts who have since followed his lead in the name of ocean… — Fabien Cousteau
- Forever may it remain that way. And may God bless these now-found souls. — Robert Ballard
- The future is in the hands of those who explore... and from all the beauty they discover while crossing perpetually receding frontiers,… — Jacques Yves Cousteau
- 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
- When ... we realize the possibilities of deep sea life still unknown to us, every haul of the dredge should be welcomed… — William Beebe
- 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
- 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
- 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