Victor Vescovo
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
So that first dive was tricky, so.
How close did you get to it?
Okay, so the first time I went to Titanic, I'm solo in the sub.
They drop you a couple hundred meters away from it so you don't land on it.
That's a requirement.
So I get in the sub, I get to the sea floor.
I'm at 4,000 meters or so.
And I start creeping up to what I think is the direction of the wreck.
At about 100 meters off, I get the first ping on the sonar.
You see it like on a display.
Oh, hey, there's something out there.
And then I get closer and closer and now I'm like 40 meters away, the maximum extent of my lights.
I'm looking out the window, I see nothing but black.
I start inching the sub closer.
Now I'm 20 meters away from what's on the sonar, this big jumbled mass of something.
Okay, is that a rock?
Is something wrong with the sonar?
I'm looking out the window, nothing but black.
So I inch the sub really close.
I'm like five meters from this big sonar target in front of me.