Jim Toomey Quotes

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.

I love scuba diving, and I've been up and down the Amazon.

I learned to dive in Belize, which is sort of like learning to drive in an Aston Martin. The reefs and refuges are some of the most dramatic in the world. But the real reason I went was to dive the Blue Hole, a 400 ft. sinkhole near Ambergris Caye. Google it, and you'll see why.

Jacques Cousteau was my hero.

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

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

There are some great divers in Europe and I'm really excited about going to Eindhoven.

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'm friends with James Cameron. We've spent time together over the years because he is a diver and explorer and in his heart of hearts a biologist. We run into each other at scientific conferences.

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

I am not a fan of being under water.

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 would like to dive in Vietnam and Cambodia.

I really want to dive in the kelp forests of Monterey Bay in California. I hear it's like floating through a forest.

I was into Jacques Cousteau as a kid and started scuba-diving around 14, which blew my mind. It was all colour, another world.

I can't imagine how unbelievable it would be to go to the Great Barrier Reef.

I want everybody to go jump in the ocean to see for themselves how beautiful it is, how important it is to get acquainted with fish swimming in the ocean, rather than just swimming with lemon slices and butter.

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

The first time I ever had the opportunity to dive on the Great Barrier Reef, it was while filming 'Oceans Deadliest' with Steve Irwin. I remember just how awestruck I was by its beauty.

I've been diving for about 30 years, and I can honestly say that I've had some amazing encounters with sharks, squids, and other whales. But the encounter with the right whales in the Auckland Islands was probably the best thing I've ever done. It was just that amazing.

We wanted to set a good example for the growing number of divers watching.

As a young boy, I was very interested - as I still am - in all sorts of adventure and exploration. I thought about being an astronaut, a dinosaur scientist, or marine biologist, but I clearly was drawn to the ocean and to the water.

The thing I love about diving is the flowing feeling. I like a sport where the whole point is to move as little as humanly possible so your air supply will last longer. That's my kind of sport. Where the amount of effort spent is absolutely minimal.

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.