Victor Vescovo

Quick Facts

Full Name	Victor Vescovo
Occupation	Explorer
Date Of Birth	Feb 10, 1966(1966-02-10)
Age	58
Birthplace	Dallas
Country	United States
Birth City	Texas
Horoscope	Aquarius

Victor Vescovo Biography

Victor Vescovo is one of the most popular and richest Explorer who was born on February 10, 1966 in Dallas, Texas, United States. Victor Lance Vescovo (born 1966) is a American investor in private equity, former naval officerand underwater explorationist. He is co-founder and managing partner of the private equity firm Insight Equity Holdings. He is the first to be able to access the lowest points in all five of oceans of the Earth through the Five Deeps Expedition of 2018-2019.

In the year 2018 Vescovo began The Five Deeps expedition, whose goal was to explore the bottom of the five major world oceans by September, 2019. This goal was met one month earlier than planned and the team was successful in carrying out biological samplings as well as depth verifications at each site. Apart from the deepest regions of the world’s five oceans, the team also conducted dives into two deeps, the Horizon Deep and the Sirena Deep and also mapped areas of the Diamantina Fracture Zone.

On June 10, 2019, Vescovo reached the bottom of the Horizon Deep in the Tonga Trench, confirming that it is the second deepest point on the planet and the deepest in the Southern Hemisphere at 10,823 m (35,509 ft). In doing so, Vescovo had descended to the first, second, and third deepest points in the ocean. Unlike the Sunda and Mariana Trenches, no signs of human contamination were found in the deep, which was described by the expedition as “completely pristine”.

On April 28, 2019, Vescovo descended nearly 11 km (6.8 mi) to the deepest place in the ocean – the Challenger Deep in Pacific Ocean’s Mariana Trench. On his first descent, he piloted the DSV Limiting Factor to a depth of 10,928 m (35,853 ft), a world record by 16 m (52 ft). Diving for a second time on May 1, he became the first person to dive the Challenger Deep twice, finding “at least three new species of marine animals” and “some sort of plastic waste”. Among the underwater creatures Vescovo encountered were a snailfish at 26,250 ft (8,000 m) and a spoon worm at nearly 23,000 ft (7,000 m) feet, which was the deepest level that the species had ever been encountered. 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. The time they spent there was 176 minutes; among the samples they retrieved was a piece of mantle rock from the western slope of the Mariana Trench.

In December of 2018 he was the first to get to the depths in the Atlantic Ocean, piloting DSV Limiting Factor with a reported 50 million dollars submarine system (Triton 36000/2) which includes its support vessel, the DSSV Pressure Drop as well as its three ultra-deep-sea robotic landing vessels 8 376 meters (27,480 feet) below sea level up to the base of the Puerto Rico Trench, an area that is later identified by the world press by the name of Brownson Deep.

Victor Vescovo Net Worth

Victor Vescovo is one of the richest Explorer from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Victor Vescovo 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

In the year 2019, Victor Vescovo was recognized by Guinness World Records as the person who has climbed the most vertical distance in a single day without leaving the Earth’s surface. In order to achieve the Explorers Grand Slam (Last Degree), Vescovo climbed Mt. Everest (8,848 meters (29,029 feet)) on the 24th of May 2010, which was the top point on Earth. Nine years later, he swam to the bottom of Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench (-10,924 metres (-35,840 feet)) the Earth’s lowest point the submersible deep Limiting Factor on the 29th of April 2019 with the total height of 19,772 m (64,869 feet).

Vescovo worked for 20 years in the U.S. Navy Reserve as an intelligence officer before retiring in 2013 as an Officer (O-5).

Vescovo completed the Five Deeps Expedition on 24 August 2019 when he reached a depth of 5,550 m (18,210 ft) at the bottom of the Molloy Deep in the Arctic ocean. He was the first human to reach this location.

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Who is Victor Vescovo Dating?

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Victor Ranked on the list of most popular Explorer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Victor Vescovo celebrates birthday on February 10 of every year.

What did Victor Vescovo discover?

More disturbingly, at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean’s Mariana Trench, Vescovo spotted what he said was a plastic bag and candy wrappers , proving even the deepest depths of the world’s ocean aren’t exempt from manmade interference.

How did Victor Vescovo go to the Mariana Trench?

Kathy Sullivan, Ph. D., former NOAA administrator and NASA astronaut, and Victor Vescovo squeeze into Limiting Factor, the deep ocean submersible built by Triton Submarines , that descended to the bottom of Mariana Trench’s Challenger Deep in the Pacific Ocean.

What is Victor Vescovo doing now?

The Caladan Oceanic Expeditions are the brainchild of extreme explorer Victor Vescovo who will pilot the submersible on its dives. Victor is a Managing Partner and Co-Founder of Insight Equity based in Dallas, Texas.

Who holds the record for going the deepest in the ocean?

Explorer Reaches Bottom of the Mariana Trench, Breaks Record for Deepest Dive Ever. Explorer and businessman Victor Vescovo descended 35,853 feet (10,927 meters) into the Pacific Ocean, breaking the record for deepest dive ever.

Has anyone gone to the bottom of the Mariana Trench?

The first and only time humans descended into the Challenger Deep was more than 50 years ago. In 1960, Jacques Piccard and Navy Lt. Don Walsh reached this goal in a U.S. Navy submersible, a bathyscaphe called the Trieste.