Victor Vescovo

Well-

Richard Branson had the idea back in the early 2000s.

He called it the Five Dives Project, but he chose some technology to try and dive to the bottom.

They used carbon fiber or a different submarine design, submersible design, and it didn't work.

But I thought, we have the technology to be able to do that.

Maybe if it was done differently, you could do it.

And then I said the five most dangerous words in the English language.

How hard could it be?

And so I started a project to figure out how much money it would take, what experts I would need, and it was expensive but possible.

And I could not believe in the year 2015 when I started researching this that human beings had not been to the bottom of four of our world's oceans.

About time.

I come from Texas, and we don't say, oh, government should do it or some other guy should do it.

We're like, hey.

I'll do it.

Why not?

I can do it.

And it was a interesting adventure too.

It had a good technical aspect, a logistical aspect.

I like problem solving and I'm a pilot.

And I said, if I build it, I'm going to pilot it.