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- Protect
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Titanic will protect itself.
- Quiet
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It is a quiet and peaceful place - and a fitting place for the remains of this greatest of sea tragedies to rest.
- Facts
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Don't confuse facts with reality.
- Compare
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Earth
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most of the southern hemisphere is unexplored. We had more exploration ships down there during Captain Cook's time than now. It's amazing.
- Economy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe in just enriching the economy. And we're leaving so much on the table, 72 percent of the planet.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Golf
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- Nov 07, 2020
Almost a quarter of our planet is a single mountain range and we didn't enter it until after Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin went to the moon. So we went to the moon, played golf up there, before we went to the largest feature on our own planet.
- Land
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are more active volcanoes beneath the sea than on land by two orders of magnitude.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am an underwater explorer, not a treasure hunter.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a long list of technologies that have now made it possible to carry out very precise search efforts in the deep sea.
- Friend
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well, when I was a kid, I grew up in San Diego next to the ocean. The ocean was my friend - my best friend.
- Mean
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I mean, technology is amoral. It has no morality.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
My family came in 1635 from England and settled in Williamsburg. Shortly after, they split up; half went to New England and half stayed in Virginia. I'm a Virginian Ballard.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
What drives me is exploration with a purpose, more the classic Royal Geographical Society genre.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am really dedicated to understanding the planet/creature on which we live and know that means I must go beneath the sea to see 72 percent of what is going on.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the most important thing people can do to save our planet and the human race is to empower women!
- Geologist
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am a geologist.
- Prefer
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- Nov 07, 2020
I prefer sayings over jokes.
- Travel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can't travel without Sudoku.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Gettysburg
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- Nov 07, 2020
You don't go to Gettysburg with a shovel, you don't take belt buckles off the Arizona.
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You don't let a historic site rot.
- Beginning
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So, you know, I think the age of exploration is just beginning, not ending, on our planet.
- I Love
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