How Two Adventurers Dove 17,000 Feet Underwater to Climb to the Summit of a Hawaiian Volcano Michael Verdon
Some people are mountain climbers, others love diving deep into the ocean. Victor Vescovo is both. An investment fund manager who was also a Naval Reserve intelligence officer for 20 years, Vescovo has climbed the Seven Summits around the world, including Mt. Everest, and recently entered the
Guinness Book of World Records for diving, for the first time in history, to the deepest locations in all five of the world’s oceans in a two-person submersible.
Last week, Vescovo and Dr. Clifford Kapono, set a new type of record for diving to the underwater base of Mauna Kea, the volcanic Hawaiian mountain, and then climbing to the summit. “The distance is greater than the height of Mount Everest,” says Vescovo, whose boat DSSV Pressure Drop and submersible,