A biography for Robert Ballardhasn’t been written yet.
“I can't travel without Sudoku.”
“You don't go to Gettysburg with a shovel, you don't take belt buckles off the Arizona.”
“You don't let a historic site rot.”
“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.”
“There's a long list of technologies that have now made it possible to carry out very precise search efforts in the deep sea.”
“I love all of the Earth.”
“There are more active volcanoes beneath the sea than on land by two orders of magnitude.”
“I am an underwater explorer, not a treasure hunter.”
“The body is sort of a pain. It has to go to the bathroom. It has to be comfortable. But the spirit is indestructible. It can move at the speed of light.”
“It is a quiet and peaceful place - and a fitting place for the remains of this greatest of sea tragedies to rest.”
“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.”
“Most of the southern hemisphere is unexplored. We had more exploration ships down there during Captain Cook's time than now. It's amazing.”
“I am really dedicated to understanding the planet/creature on which we live and know that means I must go beneath the sea to see 72 percent of what is going on.”