Victor Vescovo

And part of that problem is it's really expensive to map the seafloor, because you can only do it with a very powerful sonar.

So in the last couple of years, I've been designing and developing a ship that will be semi-autonomous, a crew of one or two, highly automated,

but with a really powerful sonar.

And hopefully in the next two years, I'll have it built.

And I'm just going to put it out in the ocean, mapping the seafloor, and then donating the maps to the open source community because it needs to be done.

It's incredible.

That's incredible.

What else am I going to do?

Yeah.

So I'm very dedicated to that ocean mapping vessel.

And eventually I want to design a next generation submersible that's even better than the one that I dove in

in 2018 to 2022 that would incorporate all the advances that we've made since then.

But that's a very expensive and very difficult endeavor, as I know, and I want to do it right.

Yeah, they're called underwater lakes, or as we saw them in the Red Sea on one of my dives, they were brine lakes.

There are certain situations in the ocean where you can end up with water areas that are of significantly different densities.

So they form pools or lakes underwater.

And they look that way because they're of different density.

In the Red Sea, it's an enclosed sea, so you get a lot of evaporation of water, but the salt stays behind.

And then the salt falls to the bottom.

So the bottom of the Red Sea, you know, 5,000 plus meters, you end up with these, like the Dead Sea, but underwater.