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  • Buoyed by water, he can fly in any direction - up, down, sideways - by merely flipping his hand. Under water, man becomes an archangel.

    Ocean   Men   Hands  
    Time, March 28, 1960.
  • Well, when I was a kid, I grew up in San Diego next to the ocean. The ocean was my friend - my best friend.

    Friendship   Ocean   Kids  
  • My final question: Why are we not looking at moving out onto the sea? Why do we have programs to build a habitation on Mars and we have programs to look at colonizing the Moon but we do not have a program looking at how we colonize our own planet, and the technology is at hand!

    Ocean   Moving   Moon  
  • I liked to use my face mask more than the diving helmet for most occasions. I was learning to hold my breath longer now and could go down almost as deep without the helmet which limited my movements.

    Ocean   Use   Movement  
    Eugenie Clark (1953). “Lady With a Spear”
  • NASA's annual budget for space exploration could fund NOAA's budget for ocean exploration for 1600 years.

    Ocean   Years   Space  
  • When we return wild animals to nature, we merely return them to what is already theirs. For man cannot give wild animals freedom, they can only take it away.

    Ocean   Animal   Men  
  • We know what the surface of the moon is better than we know what the surface of the sea floor is.

    Ocean   Moon   Sea  
  • We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.

    Four Quartets "Little Gidding" pt. 5 (1942)
  • When ... we realize the possibilities of deep sea life still unknown to us, every haul of the dredge should be welcomed by an expectant enthusiasm equaled in other fields only by the possible hope of communication with our sister planets.

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

    Ocean   Sea   Forever  
    "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • There are more active volcanoes beneath the sea than on land by two orders of magnitude.

  • Almost a quarter of our planet is a single mountain range and we didn't enter it until after Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin went to the moon. So we went to the moon, played golf up there, before we went to the largest feature on our own planet.

    "The astonishing hidden world of the deep ocean". TED Talk, www.ted.com. February, 2008.
  • Zero of Animal Life probably about 300 fathoms.

    Edward Forbes (1843). “Report on the Mollusca and Radiata of the Aegean Sea: And on Their Distribution, Considered as Bearing on Geology”
  • The Titanic will protect itself.

    "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Palaeontological research exhibits, beyond question, the phenomenon of provinces in time, as well as provinces in space. Moreover, all our knowledge of organic remains teaches us, that species have a definite existence, and a centralization in geological time as well as in geographical space, and that no species is repeated in time.

    Ocean   Space   Research  
    Edward Forbes (1859). “The Natural History of the European Seas...”, p.10
  • When one man, for whatever reason, has the opportunity to lead an extraordinary life, he has no right to keep it to himself.

  • Walking aft a few feet we stand at the steering gear of the ship. There is no cozy; wheel-house on the bridge for the quartermaster of a sailing ship! He must stand at the very stern, with an unobstructed view of the sails. When sailing "by the wind" his eye is glued to the weather-side of the uppermost sail; he keeps it drawing a trace of wind, but never lets it fill.

    Ocean   Eye   Bridges  
  • In the course of time I have learned to tramp about coral reefs, twenty to thirty feet under water, so unconcernedly that I can pay attention to particular definite things. But after all my silly fears have been allayed, even now, with eyes overflowing with surfeit of color, I am still almost inarticulate. We need a whole new vocabulary, new adjectives, adequately to describe the designs and colors of under sea.

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

    Love   Peace   Sea  
    Robert D. Ballard, Michael Sweeney (2004). “Return to Titanic: a new look at the world's most famous lost ship”, Natl Geographic Society
  • My familiarity with the successful use of very long steel ropes for mining purposes naturally suggested their adaptation to the new purpose of deep sea work.

    Ocean   Successful   Sea  
    Alexander Agassiz (1888). “A Contribution to American Thalassography: Three Cruises of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey Steameer "Blake", in the Gulf of Mexico, in the Caribbean Sea, and Along the Atlantic Coast of the United States, from 1877 to 1880”
  • A great number of soundings, mainly along the continental slope of the New England States were also taken by the vessels of the United States Fish Commission. Important soundings were made by the United States Fish Commission steamer ALBATROSS in the Caribbean, during the winter of 1883-1884.

    Taken   Ocean   Winter  
    Alexander Agassiz (1888). “A Contribution to American Thalassography: Three Cruises of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey Steameer "Blake", in the Gulf of Mexico, in the Caribbean Sea, and Along the Atlantic Coast of the United States, from 1877 to 1880”
  • The Deep Flight Challenger technology is a game-changer for ocean exploration.

    "Winged sub almost ready to go very deep" by Tom Stienstra, www.sfgate.com. October 12, 2008.
  • There is a river in the ocean. In the severest droughts it never fails, and in the mightiest floods it never overflows. Its banks and its bottom are of cold water, while its current is of warm. The Gulf of Mexico is its fountain, and its mouth is in the Arctic Sea. It is the Gulf Stream.

    Ocean   Science   Sea  
    Matthew Fontaine Maury (1855). “The Physical Geography of the Sea”, p.25
  • 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.

    Ocean   Years   Sea  
  • But unless some great revolution in nature modifies the present relative level between land and sea, it may safely be maintained that the present outer reef is the final southern boundary of the North American continent.

    Ocean   Sea   Land  
    Louis Agassiz (1882). “Report on the Florida Reefs”
  • ...It is a very remarkable fact that the species of shell-fish common to Greenland and Finmark are not all inhabitants of deep or moderately deep water .... That these littoral mollusks indicate by their presence on both sides of the Atlantic, some ancient continuity or contiguity of coast-line is what I firmly believe.

    Edward Forbes (1859). “The Natural History of the European Seas...”, p.56
  • ... the only other place comparable to these marvelous nether regions, must surely be naked space itself, out far beyond atmosphere, between the stars, where sunlight has no grip upon the dust and rubbish of planetary air, where the blackness of space, the shining planets, comets, suns, and stars must really be closely akin to the world of life as it appears to the eyes of an awed human being, in the open ocean, one half mile down.

    Stars   Ocean   Eye  
  • Aside from its importance to many branches of science, a knowledge of the oceans has a practical value for mankind. The intelligent development of our fishing industries, the laying of oceanic cables, the proper construction of harbor-works, oceanic commerce and navigation, as well as long-range weather forecasting, are all dependent on an understanding of the ocean.

  • The end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started.

    Four Quartets "Little Gidding" pt. 5 (1942)
  • Fifty percent of the United States of America is underneath the ocean. And we have better maps of Mars than those areas.

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