Victor Vescovo

In 1960 with Captain Don Walsh of the US Navy and Jacques Picard, the Swiss engineer, they went down together in 1960 and they never did it again.

James Cameron, the film director, he went down in his submersible, the Deep Sea Challenger in 2012, first solo dive to the bottom of the ocean, great respect to him, but he never dove again in that trench.

And then we came along

And we did five dives to the bottom of the Mariana Trench in 10 days.

And then we did the rest of the oceans.

And then we went back and more than 20 people have been to the bottom of the ocean in the vessel that we built.

And Triton Submarines, who designed and built it,

were extraordinary.

And so we built a tool that allowed for the first time to go anywhere on the sea floor repeatedly and safely that had not existed before.

So we made it look easy.

That's the real trick, right?

You want to do something where you make something extraordinary look easy.

Yeah, and it's a little addictive.

You know, when I did one trench, I want to do another one, then another one.

I want to do all of them now, and I haven't.

And that's why I'm taking a little bit of a break, working on some other venture investments.

I'm working very much on building what I hope is the most advanced and efficient deep ocean mapping vessel ever constructed.

Most people don't understand that 75% of the ocean is still completely and utterly unmapped and unexplored.

given that the ocean is 70% of our planet, half of planet Earth is still completely unexplored.

It's all underwater.