#244 Victor Vescovo – Solo Dive to the Titanic, Cloning Humans & Reviving Extinct Animals
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Victor Vescovo, welcome to the show. Thank you very much for having me. Man, I'm looking forward to this. You've done so much in life, especially with exploring the earth and even outside of the earth. It's going to be a fascinating interview, so I really appreciate you coming.
Thank you for the invitation. It's quite a privilege.
Thank you. All right, we're going to get right into it. So I'm going to do a little bit of a life story on you, and then towards the end, I just want to talk about all the... amazing adventures that you've been on but we always start off with with an introduction here so here we go okay victor viscovo private investor with over 30 years in complex business deals co-founder of insight equity where he raised over 1.5 billion now running Caledon Capital, focused on defense startups, high-tech hardware, and life sciences. Retired U.S. Navy Reserve Commander with 20 years of service as an intelligence officer in Extreme Explorer, who completed the Explorer's Grand Slam by submitting by summiting the highest peaks on all seven continents, including Everest and skiing to both poles.
Plus, you're the first person to dive to the deepest points in all five oceans. You hold the Guinness Book of World Records the most dives to Challenger Deep 15 times, discovering the deepest shipwrecks and achieving the extreme trifecta by going to Everest, the ocean's bottom, and to space on Blue Origin. That's insane. Member of the Ocean Elders, where you're an outspoken advocate against deep sea mining. You have a ship named after you, a naval ship, the USNS Victor Vescovo TAGOS-26, a Navy Ocean surveillance ship. You push the boundaries by mitigating risk with preparation in life and finance and on your adventures. And, you know, quite the introduction there. I'm probably missing some stuff, but wow.
But right off the bat, sometimes we do an EDC pocket dump in here, but I think this is going to be a long one, so we're not. But Jeremy had told me about your timepiece.
Yes.
And so me and my viewers are big, big fans. We're just always interested in what people are wearing. So you have a one-of-a-kind.
Yeah, it's a rather unique timepiece. I'm a brand ambassador for Omega. And before even that, I really admire their timepieces. And I needed a precision waterproof timepiece to wear on all my dives to the five oceans. It had to be a chronometer. So I picked up a titanium Seamaster. And this timepiece has now been with me on every dive I've ever made. It's been to 17 deep ocean trenches. It made all 15 dives to Challenger Deep, the deepest point in the ocean. I also took it into space with me. And so it's been my trusted companion on a lot of my different adventures.
Man, that has been through a lot.
Yeah, it has indeed. Wow. A few emergencies deep in the water. Not many people know it, but during the Apollo 13 disaster, they relied on their omegas to do the timed burn on their way back to Earth that allowed them to do a proper reentry. So it's actually a piece of safety equipment for a submersible that you need an analog time instrument in case everything else fails, which is what happened on Apollo 13. And so when you're in a submersible, if there's a big emergency and all your electronics go down, you can keep precise time. In fact... One key feature of that, if you're in a submersible and you're stranded on the bottom, every 15 or 30 minutes, exactly, you would actually wrap on the outside of the submersible with something metal because nature would never do that.
A precise signal at an exact timeframe with Morse code SOS or something like that. So the time piece is a critical survival piece of equipment, even deep in the ocean.
Man, that is cool. You know, I look... I love it.
I love it. And I love the fact that the submersible that I dove so much in was also made of titanium. So there was a nice symmetry there. Very cool. Very cool. Thank you for sharing that. Of course. And I have a gift for you. May I?
Oh, yes. I love gifts.
So this is something that I only minted about 50 challenge coins, a very military thing.
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