Ocean Survival Quotes

Knowledge of the oceans is more than a matter of curiosity. Our very survival may hinge upon it.

There's a strange sense of pleasure being beat to hell by a storm when you're on a ship that is not going to sink.

You have to have spent the night at sea, sitting in a life raft and looking at your watch, to know that the night is immeasurably longer than the day.

It's amazing how resourceful you can become when you're in the middle of the ocean and there's only one way to get to the other side.

A healthy ocean is not a luxury item. It is a necessity for survival. And taking care of the ocean means taking care of ourselves.

Each summer, as Lake Michigan finally begins to warm, I think of the men of the World War II cruiser Indianapolis and the worst disaster at sea in United States naval history. I go down to the lake, and I wonder: How would I have survived what they experienced?

Can we build a system which is able to survive on the ocean for years? That is the key question we are trying to answer here with the North Sea prototype.

The waves most washed me off the raft sometimes, but I hadn't any clothes on, and didn't mind.