72 Quotes by 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 for 1,600 years.

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

Follow your own passion - not your parents', not your teachers' - yours.

I am an underwater explorer, not a treasure hunter.

So, you know, I think the age of exploration is just beginning, not ending, on our planet.

Forever may it remain that way. And may God bless these now-found souls.

Well, when I was a kid, I grew up in San Diego next to the ocean. The ocean was my friend - my best friend.

There's a long list of technologies that have now made it possible to carry out very precise search efforts in the deep sea.

It is a quiet and peaceful place - and a fitting place for the remains of this greatest of sea tragedies to rest.