1089: Victor Vescovo | Into the Abyss: Reaching Earth's Deepest Places
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Who is Victor Vescovo and what are his achievements?
Victor's kind of like a Tony Stark meets Jacques Cousteau kind of guy. He's also a really good storyteller and an amazing person all around. I am very glad that we got to do this one. So if you're interested in science, the oceans, sea life, climate, technology, this is a great episode for you. All right, here we go with Victor Vescovo. I'd love to hear a little bit about your background because that's what really kind of got me. Susan Casey, who introduced us, was like, oh, he was in the military and then he did this thing and then he started a hedge fund and then he started this other thing and they went to all the mountains, they went to the bottom of the ocean.
What challenges exist in ocean exploration?
I was like, is this one person or did I, I had to rewind the book.
Yeah, I've done more than a few things. Born and raised in Texas. I was fortunate. I tested pretty well. I went to school out here in California. I went to Stanford. And then I kind of went in between management consulting and investment banking for a while. Picked up a master's from MIT and then from Harvard Business School and then went into private equity. Lately, I'm a little bit more in a venture capital than private equity, but that's how I made my money to fund all the various activities that I've done. When I was about 26, I was at business school and I was approached by the Navy because I have some language skills and other things. They invited me to be an intelligence officer in the reserves.
And that started a 20-year career in the military, kind of on the side. For several occasions, I was called up for relatively long periods of time to serve active duty in certain conflicts. But all the while, I was doing my day job of investing and also started a multi-decade career in mountain climbing. So that was something I was really passionate about. But as I got older, I realized it's more of a young man's game. And I was looking for a different challenge that was more cerebral, more logistic, maybe more financially difficult. And then the ocean calls when that happens. And that began a multi-year endeavor, which I'm probably most known for, is diving to the bottom of all five of the world's oceans.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
Who is Victor Vescovo and what are his achievements?
1:36–2:09
2
What challenges exist in ocean exploration?
2:09–4:53
3
How do pressure and depth affect submersible design?
4:53–26:09
4
What is crush depth and why is it important?
26:09–44:26
5
How does risk management relate to exploration?
44:26–44:38
6
What are the dangers of mountain climbing compared to ocean exploration?
44:38–1:28:18
Speakers
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