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From: Bob Ballard
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Expedition: Ballard and the Black Sea
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“Any wrecks older than that would begin to write new chapters in the history of human activity in the Black Sea.”
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From: Bob Ballard
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Expedition: Ballard and the Black Sea
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“Like plucking candy from a box, the archaeologists have culled artifacts and relics from the Paleolithic, Bronze Age, and Byzantine eras.”
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From: Bob Ballard
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Expedition: Ballard and the Black Sea
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“Titanic shrinks by comparison [to the Black Sea finds]. Maybe I’ll shed it finally.”
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From: Bob Ballard
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Expedition: Return to Midway
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“We also are keeping her location secret until the world finally realizes that ships like the Yorktown are museums of the deep that will be easily accessible to the public in the future.”
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From: Bob Ballard
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Expedition: Ballard and the Black Sea
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“The ocean has its violent moods and its gentle moods. I’m waiting for it to be kind and let me in.”:
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From: Gale Mead
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Expedition: Blue Frontier
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“Reef butterflyfish, coco damselfish, spawning palolo worms … A pilot hardly knows which way to look with so much to see.”
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From: Gale Mead
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Expedition: Blue Frontier
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“Throughout the day, the pattern of confused seas, random squalls, and high winds continued.”
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From: Gale Mead
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Expedition: Blue Frontier
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“Soon I was bombarded by teeming thousands of small fish, swimming faster than the eye could follow.”
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From: Gale Mead
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Expedition: Blue Frontier
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“Everyone is anxious to continue exploration of the pinnacles, ledges, and boulder fields that once formed Florida’s ancient coast”
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From: Gale Mead
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Expedition: Blue Frontier
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“Away in the gloom, I could see something. Something big … I’d been graced with a visit from a manta ray.”
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From: Gale Mead
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Expedition: Blue Frontier
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“A pod of dolphins comes to investigate … racing and chattering and seeming almost to laugh at the diminutive lady in the pilot’s seat.”
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From: Gale Mead
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Expedition: Blue Frontier
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“DeepWorker gives me the gift of time, and I begin what will become three of the most magical hours of my life.”
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From: Gale Mead
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Expedition: Blue Frontier
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“One of many high points during Sylvia’s dive today was an encounter with a massive Jewfish.”
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From: Michael Fay
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Expedition: Congo Trek
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“Every two or three minutes a behemoth would surface, rolling like a snake in the water.”
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From: Michael Fay
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Expedition: Congo Trek
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“The forest is a sea of huge prayer-plant leaves—a canopy three meters [10 feet] high with very few trees.”
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From: Michael Fay
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Expedition: Congo Trek
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“The landscape was like a kaleidoscope of Impressionist paintings.”
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From: Michael Fay
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Expedition: Congo Trek
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“I sat there thinking about perfectly wild animals approaching in such innocence.”
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From: Michael Fay
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Expedition: Congo Trek
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“I saw a large, milk chocolate animal jump out of view. My first impression was definitely gorilla.”
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From: Michael Fay
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Expedition: Congo Trek
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“Maybe I have been out here too long, but I can no longer look at the forest like some kind of giant supermarket.”
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From: Michael Fay
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Expedition: Congo Trek
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“This may well be the most beautiful place on Earth.”
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From: Michael Fay
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Expedition: Congo Trek
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“I felt like some kind of Tarzan up there, minus, of course, the looks, the muscles, and Jane.”
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From: Michael Fay
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Expedition: Congo Trek
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“I could hear the slow drum of the village witch doctor in a distant quarter.”
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From: Michael Fay
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Expedition: Congo Trek
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“The hillside was covered in bongo dung—perhaps the highest density I’ve ever seen.”
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From: Michael Fay
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Expedition: Congo Trek
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“In one of the camps we found a leopard skin and guns and ammunition for killing elephants.”
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From: Michael Fay
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Expedition: Congo Trek
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“We’ve reached a very high level of human activity here and the forest has been very severely damaged by this activity.”
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From: Michael Fay
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Expedition: Congo Trek
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“I lost my balance on a submerged pole bridge and found myself floundering in a mud slurry over my head.”
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From: Michael Fay
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Expedition: Congo Trek
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“[The elephant] put his head down for the charge, and I made another attempt to stop him, yelling even louder.”
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From: Michael Fay
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Expedition: Congo Trek
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“The first time you see a giant moabi … you walk around it quietly, like a Christian before the alter.”
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From: Michael Fay
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Expedition: Congo Trek
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“We are in the human world now, but a special one—with villages that haven’t been visited by a white man in over 30 years.”
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From: Michael Fay
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Expedition: Congo Trek
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“There was a thousand–strong chorus of hornbills and great blue touracos lamenting the coming of night.”
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From: Michael Fay
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Expedition: Congo Trek
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“Like the flick of a switch, we were no longer in elephant country but in the human realm, striking and real.”
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From: Michael Fay
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Expedition: Congo Trek
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“I dream every day of walking 1,000 miles into a place that has no human beings. I crave only for deeper, wilder forest.”
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From: Michael Fay
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Expedition: Congo Trek
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“About 1 a.m. I was woken by an enormous bang—like a gun shot.”
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From: Michael Fay
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Expedition: Congo Trek
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“We have really been living in a kind of wonder world out here—five days in an animal world that just doesn’t exist anymore.”
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From: Michael Heasley
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Expedition: Ballard and the Black Sea
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“Ballard and his team of experts zigzagged back and forth across the area, pinpointing the region of this ancient shoreline using the ship’s echo sounder and global positioning system (GPS) navigation.”
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From: Paul Sereno
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Expedition: DinoQuest: Sahara
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“On day three we found the maxilla, braincase, and parts of the hips and backbone of a new huge T-rex-sized predator.”
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From: Paul Sereno
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Expedition: DinoQuest: Sahara
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“Every discovery is helping us piece together a picture of what life was like in the Sahara 110 million years ago.”
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From: Paul Sereno
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Expedition: DinoQuest: Sahara
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“To our amazement we found stone and bone tools everywhere.”
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From: Sean Markey
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Expedition: Ballard and the Black Sea
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“The hard work of prying secrets from the sea has begun.”
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From: Sean Markey
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Expedition: Ballard and the Black Sea
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“There was no question the object had been modified by human hands.”
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From: Sean Markey
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Expedition: Ballard and the Black Sea
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“There’s a palpable buzz in the air: finally a chance to peer into the depths of the Black Sea.”
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From: Sean Markey
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Expedition: Ballard and the Black Sea
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“If those targets represent … pre-flood settlement—their significance would be staggering.”
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From: Sylvia Earle
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Expedition: Blue Frontier
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“Each translucent pink creature sparkles with … the living light of bioluminescence, the mass appearing like a double handful of stars.”
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From: Sylvia Earle
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Expedition: Blue Frontier
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“Most of the world below scuba diving range has not been seen even once, including the area we were about to explore.”
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From: Sylvia Earle
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Expedition: Blue Frontier
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“I am alone, but hardly lonely. Thousands of creatures are just outside.”
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From: Tom Allen
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Expedition: Return to Midway
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“The ATV is about 17,500 feet (5,334 meters) down, hovering over the ocean floor, looking for the Japanese aircraft carriers Kaga and Akagi.”
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From: Tom Allen
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Expedition: Return to Midway
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“There have been a few intriguing blips on the ocean-floor printouts produced by the MR-1 search system.”
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From: Will Steger
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Expedition: Solo from the Pole
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“Here in the polar regions, the nature of things often runs the show.”
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From: Will Steger
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Expedition: Solo from the Pole
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“I must be careful, however, in this type of dry wind because it has a lot of energy and lift.”
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From: Will Steger
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Expedition: Solo from the Pole
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“I watched the GPS change as I drifted over the Greenwich meridian (or 0º longitude) that separates the earth into east and west.”
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From: Will Steger
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Expedition: Solo from the Pole
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“I am at the top of the world adrift on a small ice block, in the middle of the Arctic Ocean, inside of a seemingly endless foggy mist.”
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From: Will Steger
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Expedition: Solo from the Pole
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“However, the spirit can get sleepy in this indefinable world.”
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