Stephen Hillenburg Quotes

My grandfather was Jacques Cousteau, a pioneer of ocean exploration and the co-inventor of scuba diving. Back in the 1940s when he tested out his invention which allowed humans to swim freely in the ocean with a portable air source for the first time in history, very little of the ocean had been explored let alone captured on film.

I am an underwater explorer, not a treasure hunter.

I do an awful lot of scuba diving. I love to be on the ocean, under the ocean. I live next to the ocean.

Everybody's got some fascination with undersea life, don't you think?

Everyone loves to fly, and flying underwater is even better than flying in air because there are things around you.

When I was a child, I saw my father diving to the deepest point in the ocean with the U.S. Navy.

Being able to breathe underwater would be sweet. There is so much life underneath the water that we don't know about. I would love to check out the bottom of the ocean to see what's going on down there.

I've had the joy of spending thousands of hours under the sea. I wish I could take people along to see what I see, and to know what I know.

I'm a big diver. I like to dive when I travel, and my last dive was in the Galapagos. I used to live in San Francisco and I would dive all the time in Monterey.

My favourite thing to do on this planet is to scuba dive.

If I didn't travel so much, maybe my perfect Sunday would be skin diving on a coral reef - not scuba diving, as skin diving is more physical, and I prefer the lightness of it. Skin diving means wearing just goggles. Oh, I could wear some trunks, maybe.

I'm in the water twice a week diving for lobster.

In the spring of 1996, I was working for Nickelodeon on a show called 'Rocko's Modern Life,' and I was interested at the time in doing a show about the ocean, an undersea show.

I filmed underwater for two days in the open ocean with dolphins.

I've always loved scuba diving and the cell-tickling feel of being underwater, though it poses unique frustrations. Alone, but with others, you may share the same sights and feelings, but you can't communicate well.

As a child, William Beebe was my hero, and I used to read about him going down in the bathysphere, and I wanted to do that too. And I told my family, I said, 'I'd like to go down and be like William Beebe,' and they said, 'Well, maybe you can take up typing and get to be the secretary of William Beebe or somebody like him.'

I like underwater life.

All in all, the dives I made in Fiordland were some of the best I've ever made.

The Jacques Cousteau shows actually got me very excited about the fact that there's an alien world here on Earth.

I just learned how to scuba dive. I'd been scared to rely on one little air hose for oxygen, but swimming with all those fish is exhilarating.

Belize suits me because I'm active and I like diving. I learnt when I was 18, in Thailand, and I have dived in Vietnam, which wasn't great, the Red Sea, which was incredible and reasonably priced, and then the Maldives, which is like being submerged in an aquarium.

I am so scared of the sea, so what did I do? Learned to scuba in the Great Barrier Reef.

Snorkeling the Great Barrier Reef, I saw something - I don't know what it was to this day. My mind couldn't relate to what it was... If I saw it and knew it was a shark, I wouldn't be as afraid, but I saw something that looked prehistoric, and I haven't been snorkeling since.

The Gili Islands gave me some of my best scuba diving experiences, including tons of turtles.

I remember going to my school careers advisor and asked about jobs that required scuba divers. It was a phase.