Diane Ackerman Quotes

I can mention many moments that were unforgettable and revelatory. But the most single revelatory three minutes was the first time I put on scuba gear and dived on a coral reef. It's just the unbelievable fact that you can move in three dimensions.

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.

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

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 look really good in a scuba suit.

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

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

I learned how to scuba dive, which is something that I've always wanted to do.

I was training more learning how to scuba dive which I'd never done which was really, really, really cool.

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

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.

I've been a scuba diver since I was 16 and I think that was one of the reasons they chose me.

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

If you ever get a chance to learn how to scuba dive, go do it.

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.

We were shooting in a French island called La Reunion. One of my crew members gifted me free-diving equipment and took me to the waters on my day off. I spotted sharks and species of fish which can't be found elsewhere. It was a very refreshing experience for me.

Success underwater depends mostly on how you conduct yourself. Diving can be the most relaxing experience in the world. Your weight seems to disappear. Space travel will be available only to a few individuals for some time, but the oceans are available to almost everyone - now.

I actually love diving at night; you see a lot of fish then that you don't see in the daytime.

I dive as much as I can.

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

The Deep Flight Challenger technology is a game-changer for ocean exploration.

I try to swim every damn day I can, and I've learned to scuba dive and snorkel.

When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.