Meet Victor Vescovo, who just broke the world record by diving into the deepest part of the ocean
The world record for the deepest dive in history has just been broken by Dallas businessman and explorer Victor Vescovo, who plunged down 35,853ft into the Mariana Trench’s Challenger Deep—the deepest known point on Earth.
In an interview with Newsweek, Vescovo said he started thinking about attempting the dive in 2012 after he'd climbed the highest mountain on each of the world’s continents. His plan was to dive to the deepest parts of all five of Earth’s oceans. He broke the record for the deepest dive during his second expedition into the Mariana Trench.
In terms of the challenges involved in diving to such great depths, Vescovo said that designing a vehicle to withstand such great pressures was one of the most difficult obstacles. “It was a big challenge to design all the systems that could reliably and repeatedly survive that massive physical assault from nature.“The biggest risk was probably developing some kind of leak at extreme pressure,” he continued.
He added that another very important part of exploration is entering the unknown. “We don't know what the deep oceans might teach us. True exploration has a fun habit of surprising us. Who would have thought that Columbus' voyages would have eventually led to the discovery of the potato, or bison?”
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