Victor Vescovo

I mean, you have the greatest mountain climbers in the world, the greatest ocean explorers, the greatest botanists, the greatest volcanists, people that go into volcanoes.

I mean, it's just nuts.

Damn.

If you'd like an invitation, I can get you to the next one in April.

I'd be an honor to have you at my table.

Absolutely.

Oh, you'd meet some interesting people.

Oh, I took a volcanist who had studied underwater volcanoes for her whole career.

She was from Germany.

She had never even seen one or been one up close.

I got to take her down in my submersible into a submerged volcano in the Red Sea.

It was so fun.

That was really cool.

One thing that was great about being able to build my submersible and take it all over the world, I was able to share the experience with people that had never been able to experience these things they had dedicated their lives to studying.

Deep ocean trenches, underwater volcanoes, the abyssal plains.

And providing a tool for the first time that could allow them to go anywhere on the seafloor repeatedly and safely.

That was one of the biggest achievements I'm happy I was able to do in my life was help make that technology available.

How long have you had the Submersible?

I don't have it anymore.

I built it and operated it for about six years, dove it for four of them.