Robert Ballard

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

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

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The Titanic will protect itself.

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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.

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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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I am an underwater explorer, not a treasure hunter.

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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.

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

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

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Quotes by Robert Ballard