Heard loud and clear over the airwaves, instead of Vescovos messages, is the hunting sonar of a school of whales. Victor Vescovo Makes Deepest Submarine Dive in History These included former astronaut and NOAA Administrator Kathryn Sullivan, the first woman to ultimate depth; Kelly Walsh, the son of Don Walsh (who with Jacques Piccard made the first dive into the Challenger Deep) to become the only father/son team to make this journey albeit 60 years apart; and Vanessa O'Brien, the first woman to both climb Everest and also descend to the bottom of the seafloor (Vescovo was the first person). Mount Kilimanjaro loomed in the distance, jutting through the clouds. He can say as much because thats how he has lived. And the only thing assembled was the sphere, says Josh Young, an author who was embedded with the team and is writing a book about the Five Deeps. The retired French Rear Admiral Jean-Louis Barbier investigated the wreck of the Minerve on the first dive. Monika Beu, the long-term partner of the expedition's sponsor Victor Vescovo, who remains a strong supporter of the expedition. In 2012, the filmmaker James Cameron had helped develop a sub called the Deepsea Challenger, a narrow, neon green ship that resembled a giant Nerf gun turned on its head. The question is therefore rational about what the Albanian flag does on a mission to the Pacific Ocean? On May 7, 2019, Vescovo and Jamieson made the first human-occupied deep submersible dive to the bottom of the Sirena Deep, the third deepest point in the ocean lying about 128 miles northeast from Challenger Deep. Victor Vescovo: Deepest dive by a crewed vessel Usually, youd have a rescue sub that could get down with a manipulator arm and cut you free; with the Limiting Factor thats impossible. Victor Vescovo descended nearly 11km (seven miles) to the deepest place in the ocean - the Pacific Ocean's Mariana Trench. Hes commissioning a highly complex piece of equipment, Lahey says. Functional cookies help to perform certain functionalities like sharing the content of the website on social media platforms, collect feedbacks, and other third-party features. and an MBA from the Harvard Business School, where he graduated as a Baker Scholar. Congratulations.. Dawn Wright and I completed a dive to 10,919m +/- 6m at the bottom of Challenger Deep (my 15th visit), Western Pool. Vescovos first action on a descent is to use ballast pumps to make the sub negatively buoyant. Today, dive day, the wind chill factor contributes to an air temperature of -8C, and the water temperature is just 0.4C. The boat was sitting over the Brownson Deep of the Puerto Rico Trench in the Atlantic Ocean, and the Limiting Factor sub looked like it was only going to discover its own limit. science.org. We could tell a slight difference in the shade of green. At Bain, his boss recognized that Vescovo knew enough to start his own firm and asked if he could found it with him. Ill just go down in the steel ball if that works.. His original concept was a steel sphere with no windows, Lahey says. Victor Vescovo, the planet's most travelled deep-sea explorer, has completed the first-ever crewed submersible dive to the 8km-plus deepest point of the Atacama Trench off South America.
