I think the most important thing people can do to save our planet and the human race is to empower women!
I mean, technology is amoral. It has no morality.
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.
The Titanic will protect itself.
So, you know, I think the age of exploration is just beginning, not ending, on our planet.
There's a long list of technologies that have now made it possible to carry out very precise search efforts in the deep sea.
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.
If you plan it out, and it seems logical to you, then you can do it. I discovered the power of a plan.
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.
There are more active volcanoes beneath the sea than on land by two orders of magnitude.
You don't go to Gettysburg with a shovel, you don't take belt buckles off the Arizona.
What drives me is exploration with a purpose, more the classic Royal Geographical Society genre.
I believe in just enriching the economy. And we're leaving so much on the table, 72 percent of the planet.
I would have to say my favorite place on Earth is Bora Bora.
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.
Don't confuse facts with reality.
Forever may it remain that way. And may God bless these now-found souls.
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.
I love all of the Earth.
I can't travel without Sudoku.
