Knowledge is the superpower of the 21st century. Even the smartest people alive when I was born did not know what 10-year-olds today have available t… - Sylvia A. Earle

One of my personal heroes is William Perrin

I've had a chance to live underwater 10 times now in various underwater laboratories and to use more than 30 different kinds of submarines, thousands of hours seeing the ocean from the inside out and realizing this is not just rocks and water; this is alive. It's a soup, like minestrone, but all the little pieces are alive.

Common sense forces me to consider first the incredible sweep of time that preceded this moment and the ocean's great age, relative to the infinitesimally small fragment of time enjoyed thus far by humankind.