Victor Vescovo

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Victor Vescovo (2020)

Victor Lance Vescovo (born February 10, 1966 in Dallas , Texas ) is an American investor, explorer and retired naval officer.

Career

Vescovo grew up in Dallas, where he graduated from St. Mark's School of Texas. He earned a bachelor's degree in economics and political science from Stanford University , a master's degree in defense and arms control studies from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and an MBA from Harvard Business School , which he graduated as a Baker Scholar. Vescovo was a co-founder and managing partner of Insight Equity Holdings and served as an intelligence officer in the US Navy Reserve for 20 years before retiring as commander in 2013 .

Explorer

He completed the Explorers Grand Slam , which includes climbing the Seven Summits and reaching the North and South Poles on their own. He reached the summit of Mount Everest on May 24, 2010.

Submersible Limiting Factor

In 2018 Vescovo started the Five Deeps Expedition with the ship Pressure Drop and the submersible Limiting Factor to reach the deepest points of the five oceans on earth. Vescovo was the first person to reach the deepest point in the Atlantic in the Puerto Rico Trench , the deepest point in the Southern Ocean in the South Sandwich Trench and the deepest point in the Indian Ocean in the Java Trench .

On April 28, 2019, Vescovo explored the challenging depth of the Mariana Trench in the Pacific with the DSV Limiting Factor . It reached a depth of 10,928 m, which exceeded the previous depth record of the Trieste submarine from 1960 by 16 meters. On May 1st, he plunged into Challenger Deep a second time and became the first person to do so.

He reached the deepest point of the Arctic Ocean on August 29, 2019 with the dive to Molloy Deep . The expedition team also carried out biological sampling and depth confirmations , undertook dives in the Tonga Trench and Sirena Depth, and mapped the Diamantina Fracture Zone , whose Diamantina Deep was long believed to be the deepest point in the Indian Ocean, which Vescovo's expedition was able to refute. Vescovo was the first person to reach all these places.

In 2019 he received an entry in the Guinness Book of Records as the first person to reach both the highest and the lowest point on earth.

Web links

Commons : Victor Vescovo  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Victor Lance Vescovo. Insight Equity, May 25, 2020, accessed July 8, 2020 .
  2. ↑ a b Rubert Neate: Wall Street trader reaches bottom of Atlantic in bid to conquer five oceans. In: TheGuardian.com . December 22, 2018, accessed July 8, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Explorers Grand Slam , accessed May 25, 2020.
  4. ↑ Erik Stokstad: 'Five Deeps' mission to explore mysterious ocean trenches . In: Science 364 (6421), 2018, pp. 1342–3, doi: 10.1126 / science.362.6421.1342 .
  5. ↑ a b First person to reach Earth's highest and lowest points , www.guinnessworldrecords.com, April 28, 2019.
  6. ^ Deepest Submarine Dive in History, Five Deeps Expedition Conquers Challenger Deep . The Five Deeps, May 13, 2019.
  7. ↑ Jonathan Amos: Victor Vescovo: Adventurer reaches deepest ocean locations . BBC, September 9, 2019.
  8. ↑ Ben Taub, Paolo Pellegrin: Thirty-six Thousand Feet Under the Sea: The explorers who set one of the last meaningful records on earth . In: The New Yorker , May 10, 2020.
  9. ↑ Heather Stewart, Alan Jamieson, Cassie Bongiovanni: Exploring the Deepest Points on Planet Earth: Report on The Five Deeps Expedition . www.hydro-international.com, June 18, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Vescovo, Victor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vescovo, Victor Lance
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American investor, explorer, and naval officer
DATE OF BIRTH February 10, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Dallas