Nationality: USA
Inducted: 2024
Notable Record(s):
- Deepest dive by a crewed vessel
- First person to visit the oceans’ deepest points
- Most times to visit the Challenger Deep by an individual
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More people have visited the Moon than have been to the depths of Earth’s oceans – and that is something that adventurer Victor Vescovo sought to redress.
The former US Naval Officer became the first person to visit the deepest point in Earth’s five oceans in 2019. Other deep-sea feats include helping to locate the deepest shipwreck, the long-lost USS Samuel B. Roberts at 6,865 m (22,523 ft).
Not content with plumbing the ocean depths, the multidisciplinary explorer has also conquered the world’s biggest peaks, trekked to both poles and even ventured beyond Earth’s atmosphere.
In 2022, he became the first ever person to complete what GWR have dubbed the “Explorers’ Trifecta” (scaling Everest, diving to the Challenger Deep and venturing into space).
