Victor Vescovo

What are you looking for?

I said, I don't know.

That's the joy of it.

I have no idea what we're going to find, but I know it'll be new.

And even if it's boring, we will have discovered something.

Yeah, that was one of the really nice benefits of having my own system.

I wasn't beholden to any government, no institution.

People couldn't tell me what to do.

I could decide, I want to go dive that trench or I want to go dive that area and just go do it.

That's why I don't really have any real sponsors except for my favorite watch brand, Omega.

And I do that because I like them.

but I don't know they have any other sponsors because once you take money from people, they can tell you what to do.

I don't like being told what to do.

And that allowed me to invite scientists who had unique specialties, who had never been in a deep diving submersible for the first and probably only time in their life to investigate areas that they had spent their whole lives researching.

And that was pretty cool.

Like I took a local Hawaiian PhD in marine biology.

We went down to the very bottom of Mauna Kea, which technically is the tallest mountain in the world.

It's just that half of it is underwater.

We got in the submersible, and Dr. Cliff Capono and I of Hawaii, we went down to the base of Mauna Kea in the ocean.

We floated to the top.