72 Quotes by Robert Ballard

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

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.

You don't go to Gettysburg with a shovel, you don't take belt buckles off the Arizona.

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.

I think the most important thing people can do to save our planet and the human race is to empower women!

I believe in just enriching the economy. And we're leaving so much on the table, 72 percent of the planet.

I mean, there is amazing amount of oil and gas and other resources out beneath the sea. It's staggering.

I would have to say my favorite place on Earth is Bora Bora.

It's not a huge surprise that there are habitations at the bottom of the Black Sea.