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Ocean Exploration Quotes

Most of the southern hemisphere is unexplored. We had more exploration ships down there during Captain Cook's time than now. It's amazing.

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
Ocean Exploration, Southern, Hemisphere

There are more active volcanoes beneath the sea than on land by two orders of magnitude.

Robert Ballard
Ocean Exploration, Volcanoes, Order

I am absolutely enraptured by the atmosphere of a wreck. A dead ship is the house of a tremendous amount of life-fish and plants. The mixture of life and death is mysterious, even religious. There is the same sense of peace and mood that you feel on entering a cathedral.

Jacques Yves Cousteau
Life, Religious, Ocean Exploration

The Titanic will protect itself.

Robert Ballard
Sea, Ocean Exploration, Protect
"Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Zero of Animal Life probably about 300 fathoms.

Edward Forbes
Zero, Animal, Ocean Exploration
Edward Forbes (1843). “Report on the Mollusca and Radiata of the Aegean Sea: And on Their Distribution, Considered as Bearing on Geology”

As we descend deeper and deeper in this region its inhabitants become more and more modified, and fewer and fewer, indicating our approach towards an abyss where life is either extinguished , or exhibits but a few sparks to mark its lingering presence.

Edward Forbes
Ocean Exploration, Gmos, Sparks
Edward Forbes (1859). “The Natural History of the European Seas...”, p.26

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.

Robert Ballard
Mean, Sea, Ocean Exploration

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