Stanford University Massachusetts Institute of Technology Harvard Business School
Occupation(s)
Private equity investor, former naval officer, mountain climber, undersea explorer
Title
Co-Founder, Insight Equity Holdings; Commander, US Navy (Ret.)
Awards
The Explorer Medal (2020), Captain Don Walsh Award for Ocean Exploration (2021), The Historical Diving Society USA - Hans Hass Award (2023)
Military career
Allegiance
United States
Service/branch
United States Navy
Years of service
1993–2013
Rank
Commander
Space career
Blue Origin Space Tourist
Flight time
10 minutes, 5 seconds
Missions
Blue Origin NS-21
Victor Lance Vescovo (born February 10, 1966) is an American private equity investor, retired naval officer, sub-orbital spaceflight participant, and undersea explorer.
He was a co-founder and managing partner of private equity company Insight Equity Holdings from 2000-2023.[2] Vescovo achieved the Explorers Grand Slam by reaching the North and South Poles and climbing the Seven Summits. He visited the deepest points of all of Earth's five oceans during the Five Deeps Expedition of 2018–2019.
^Titanic Post: Jahrbuch 2019 des Titanic-Vereins Schweiz [Titanic Post: Yearbook 2019 of the Titanic Association Switzerland] (PDF) (in German). Switzerland: Bod – Books On Demand. 2020. p. 106. ISBN 978-3-750434-97-4.
^Neate, Rupert (December 22, 2018). "Wall Street trader reaches bottom of Atlantic in bid to conquer five oceans". The Guardian. Retrieved December 22, 2018 – via www.theguardian.com.
Victor Lance Vescovo (born February 10, 1966) is an American private equity investor, retired naval officer, sub-orbital spaceflight participant, and undersea...
crewed dives in all five oceans. Limiting Factor was commissioned by VictorVescovo for $37 million and operated by his marine research organization, Caladan...
eastern pool was made by VictorVescovo and Michael Dubno. On 5 March a descent to the eastern pool was made by VictorVescovo and Hamish Harding. They...
American politician VictorVescovo (born 1966), American financier and undersea explorer This page lists people with the surname Vescovo. If an internal link...
O'Brien were the first two women to visit Challenger Deep in 2020. VictorVescovo has made the most dives to Challenger Deep; by August 2022 he had made...
deploy a second hydrophone in 2017 for an extended period of time. VictorVescovo achieved a new record descent to 10,928 m (35,853 ft; 5,976 fathoms)...
point in the Atlantic Ocean. During the Five Deeps Expedition, explorer VictorVescovo achieved the first crewed descent to this location on 21 December 2018...
submarines: Expedition R-12, Expedition S-26, Expedition S-28 Flag #81 – VictorVescovo and Patrick Lahey – the Five Deeps expedition Flag #105 – L. Ron Hubbard...
diving with the deep-submergence vehicle Limiting Factor, piloted by VictorVescovo. The first dives of the 2020 season commenced with dives to the French...
Kennedy Space Center in the United States. On 5 March 2021, Harding and VictorVescovo dived to the deepest point of the Mariana Trench, the Challenger Deep...
admiration for Iain M Banks’ brilliant science fiction series," according to VictorVescovo, who commissioned the deep-submergence vehicle. In 2015, two SpaceX...
crewed descent to the Emden Deep was made by American undersea explorer VictorVescovo and Filipino oceanographer Deo Florence Onda in March 23, 2021. Findings...
parallel south, the deepest point in the Southern Ocean, is dubbed by VictorVescovo as the Factorian Deep, a name that he hopes will become official. This...
DSV Limiting Factor (a Triton 36000/2 model submersible) piloted by VictorVescovo. Scientific studies have concluded that an earthquake occurring along...
a private deep-sea exploration platform, from the undersea explorer VictorVescovo. In 2020, Newell and the Valve employee Yahn Bernier created a car racing...
to have reached the bottom of the Molloy Deep is American explorer VictorVescovo, as part of his Five Deeps Expedition. The Molloy Deep is a roughly...
have revealed extensive changes in the ocean floor. On 5 April 2019 VictorVescovo made the first crewed descent to the deepest point of the trench in...
Sudan in a coup d'état amid widespread protests in both countries. VictorVescovo breaks the human depth record, reaching 10,928 m in the Challenger Deep...
milestone for the company. The Limiting Factor was first operated by VictorVescovo, and, as of 2019, holds the record for deepest crewed descent (to the...
to April 2021, only two other people had explored the Sirena Deep: VictorVescovo and Alan Jamieson in 2018. Connor reported that he aimed to go both...
metres (24,390 ft). The expedition leader and chief submersible pilot VictorVescovo, has proposed naming this deepest point in the Southern Ocean the "Factorian...
itself 5,750 km (3,570 mi) away from Horizon Deep, was visited by VictorVescovo on the first crewed descent to the bottom of the Sirena Deep on 5 June...
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