Victor Vescovo

Oh, the Titanic.

Everybody loves to talk about Titanic.

Titanic, I guess the best way to start the story of my, I did three dives to Titanic.

My team did five.

We were the first crewed mission, people actually going to visit the wreck in 15 years.

And we did that in 2019.

It took us two tries.

The first try, we got out there and there was a hurricane.

and we couldn't dive the sub, but we went the following year.

So on the very first dive, it was my system, my crew, I said, I want to take it down solo.

No one had ever done that.

Solo?

Yeah.

So now I've been quoted as saying, and it's true, probably the most dangerous dive I ever did, including the ones to the Mariana Trench.

The most dangerous one was the first dive I did at the Titanic solo.

And the reason why, wrecks are very dangerous because they have cables and ropes.

And the number one danger to a submersible is getting entangled the propellers with a rope or a cable.

You can't go out there and untangle it.

You have to rely on a single switch to eject that part of the exterior that is entangled.

And if that switch doesn't work, you're out of luck.