- Jacques-Yves Cousteau: Birds are more sensitive than men to their environment. If this bird can stand the pressure, it will encourage the men.
- Jacques-Yves Cousteau: Starfish, despite their peaceful appearance, are carnivores specially adapted to eat shellfish. Scallops have many eyes to look out for their dreaded enemy.
- [a starfish placed next to scallops sends the scallops jetting away]
- Jacques-Yves Cousteau: Scallops travel by jet, like the diving saucer.
- Jacques-Yves Cousteau: That is how we spied on a lazy fish that lived with two small crustaceans. He leaves the housekeeping entirely up to them.
- [a crustacean shovels sand out of its hole with its claws]
- Jacques-Yves Cousteau: The little fellow thinks he's a bulldozer. He even knows how to wedge a big stone with a smaller one.