Victor Vescovo

And those are stars for all the different trenches that we dove on that particular expedition.

Yes, because there are only so many hours in the day, and family are, of course, extremely important.

And I think I've made a conscious decision where I prioritize for most of my life, my career, my military service, and exploring.

And to be quite frank, something has to give.

And so, yes, that certainly has been a drawback.

Well, it tends to come and go in waves.

When I was diving intensively between 2018 and 2022, I would be off four weeks, even months at a time, come back to recharge in my home in Texas, and then go back out on expedition.

So it was a very intense four years, like being on deployment in the teams or something like that.

But now I'm more focused on developing technology, potentially to go back into the ocean, hopefully in two, three, or four years, and restart the cycle.

Wow.

Yes.

It's been amazing.

I feel incredibly privileged to live in a country and in a society that allows for people to come from modest upbringing to achieve extraordinary things.

If you have the imagination and you're willing to work very, very hard.

Yeah.

My ancestors came here at the turn of the century from Italy, and they settled here in Tennessee.

They settled outside of Memphis, and they had an ice cream factory.

They had farms.

They worked hard.

They brought their other family members across, and they were reasonably successful.