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“I am an underwater explorer, not a treasure hunter.”

— Robert Ballard

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

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

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

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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.

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

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

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