2021-22 Expeditions Cuttings

BBC

Nearly a quarter of Earth’s seafloor now mapped.

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Forbes

Explorer Victor Vescovo Discovers World’s Deepest Wreck.

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CNN

USS Samuel B Roberts: Explorers find the world’s deepest shipwreck in the Pacific.

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BBC

USS Samuel B Roberts: World’s Deepest Shipwreck Discovered.

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Forbes

Victor Vescovo becomes first to Climb Everest, visit Ocean’s Deepest Depth and fly to the Final Frontier.

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The Adrenaline Zone Podcast

Diving Deep with Victor Vescovo

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Copa Airlines Magazine – Panorama

Expedition to the Atacama Trench

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BOCAS

La Vida Abismal Del Excéntrico

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IFL Science

From Sea to Space – an interview with Victor Vescovo

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Superyacht News

Owner – Victor Vescovo

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Yachts International

Chasing Frontiers

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DIVERNET

World’s Deepest Diver Cracks Atacama Trench

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IFL Science

First-Ever Crewed Mission Reveals Bottom Of Atacama Trench In Incredible Footage.

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MAIL ONLINE

World’s first-ever crewed mission reaches the bottom of the Atacama Trench, descending 26,465ft below sea level…

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The Times

Ex-US Navy commander Victor Vescovo reaches bottom of ocean trenches to set exploration record.

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Mail Online

Ex-US Navy commander becomes first to reach the bottom of all four of the world’s deepest ocean trenches…

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Onboard Online

Victor Vescovo becomes first person to dive all four 10,000 meter trenches.

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MUT & SUT

MTS & SUT Announce Winners of the 2021 Captain Don Walsh Award for Ocean Exploration

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AOPA

One Pilot’s Journeys to the Top and Bottom of the World

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Unexplainable: How Low Can You Go?

Earlier this year, Nicole Yamase explored the bottom of the Challenger Deep, the deepest place in the Ocean.

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British Geological Survey

Marine Biologist Heather Stewart talks about her experience as part of the Five Deeps Expedition.

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Dalhousie University

Selected audio clips from the April 16th deployment of the Deep Acoustic Lander to the bottom of the Challenger Deep.

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KUOW | NPR

What lies 21,180 feet under the sea? Bill Radke spoke to Victor Vescovo about the re-discovery of the World War Two Navy Destroyer, USS Johnston.

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Robb Report

Meet the Ocean Activists Using Their Own Money to Study the Seas and Combat Climate Change…

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New York Times

The U.S.S. Johnston Sank in 1944. A Crew Just Visited Its Wreckage…

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CBS News

USS Johnston uncovered after nearly 80 years….

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Robb Report

How Two Adventurers Dove 17,000 Feet Underwater to Climb to the Summit of a Hawaiian Volcano…

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Wish Magazine

Victor Vescovo has reached the planet’s heights and plumbed its depths, and needed a watch that was up to the challenge…

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ABS CBN News

Scientist Deo Florence Onda set to become 1st Pinoy to reach 3rd deepest spot on Earth.

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Boat International

The Science Award. This award recognises the individual or research team that has made an original scientific contribution about the ocean this year…

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2020 Expeditions Cuttings

Jump to: General Cuttings Ring of Fire Phase I

General Cuttings

General Cuttings and other media

Guinness World Records

American explorer plunges to new lows on quest to visit the oceans’ hidden depths.

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Environment Coastal & Offshore

How Deep is the Ocean? Mapping, Measuring, and Diving to the Marian Trench’s Challenger Deep

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Sunset

“It Can Get Done” — Meet the 1st Man to Pilot a Submersible to the Bottom of All Five Oceans

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Daily Mail

Caroline Graham watches history being made as a British-designed sub travels seven miles below the Pacific to find unknown creatures… and a Coke can.

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Oceanographic Magazine

How Victor Vescovo became the first person to visit the deepest part of every ocean.

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Federal News Network

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in recent months has inked agreements with three private companies, extending the agency’s own capabilities to explore and map the deepest parts of the ocean.

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Victor Vescovo: The Last Great Explorer

Meet the first person in history to dive to the bottom of all five of the world’s oceans, climb the Seven Summits and ski to both the North and South Poles.

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NOAA to collaborate with Caladan Oceanic

NOAA intends to collaborate with Caladan in an effort to explore, characterize, and map unknown areas of the deep ocean.

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Limiting Factor submersible in a league of its own

Limiting Factor is officially the first submersible to reach the deepest points of all five oceans. In order to accomplish this, it was built to withstand 20% more pressure than it would actually encounter anywhere on Earth…

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To Boldy Go Where no Woman has Gone Before

In June, two American explorers, Kathryn Sullivan and Vanessa O’Brien, are planning to make an impressive dive, seven miles deep.

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Naval Institute Podcast Episode 134

Adventurer and retired Navy intel officer Victor Vescovo talks about his undersea missions to the bottom of the five oceans.

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2020 Expeditions – Phase 5

Ring of Fire

June – July 2020

Forbes

Irish America

Father-Son Sea Saga – 60 Years in the Making

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Forbes

BBC News

Don Walsh’s son repeats historic ocean dive

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Forbes

Forbes

Journey to the Bottom of the Earth

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Forbes

New York Times

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CBC Radio

1st US Woman to Walk in Space Becomes 1st Woman to Visit Ocean’s Deepest Depths

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Forbes

Good News Network

First US Woman to Walk in Space Just Travelled to the Ocean’s Deepest Depth

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Forbes

NBC News

First American woman to walk in space now first woman to reach deepest point of ocean

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Forbes

CNN

Former astronaut becomes first person to visit both space and the deepest place in the ocean

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Forbes

New York Times

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2020 Expeditions – Phase 3

Red Sea

March 2020.

Forbes

King Abdullah University

Caladan Oceanic’s Red Sea Expedition Makes Marine Science History

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2020 Expeditions – Phase 1

La Minerve

Mediterranean Sea. February 2020.

Forbes

France Bleu

Une nouvelle plongée sur la Minerve au large de Toulon grâce à un milliardaire américain

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Dallas News

FranceTVinfo.fr

“Marins de la Minerve, nous vous avons cherchés, nous ne vous avons jamais oubliés”

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Dallas News

Le Parisien

“Une plaque posée sur l’épave du sous-marin la Minerve, dans le Var”

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Dallas News

Le Télégramme

“Plongée sur l’épave de La Minerve : “C’est bouleversant”

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Dallas News

Var-Matin

Le fils du pacha a enfin vu la Minerve de ses propres yeux.

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2019 archived cuttings

General Cuttings

General articles about the Five Deeps Expedition as a whole

Sphères Magazine

Entretien avec Victor Vescovo, l’homme des abysses

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The NewYorker

Thirty-six Thousand Feed Under the Sea

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Outside Online

One Man’s Wild Quest to Reach the Bottom of Every Ocean

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Elite Traveler – Spring 2019

Victor Vescovo tells Elite Traveler what inspired his self-funded journey to the bottom of all five oceans, and why exploring the unknown is so important

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The Today Programme

Listen to the BBC Radio 4’s The Today Programme as they discuss The Five Deeps Expedition.

The Dallas Morning News

In this front-page story, Victor Vescovo goes in depth with The Dallas Morning News, talking about his background and covering highlights of the Five Deeps Expedition.

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Deep Dive 4

Pacific Ocean

Challenger Deep. May 2019.

Forbes

Forbes

Businessman Victor Vescovo Sets New World Depth Record For Mariana Trench Dive

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Dallas News

Dallas Morning News

‘Unprecedented’: Dallas businessman Victor Vescovo completes deepest ocean dive…

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BBC News

BBC News

Record-breaking journey to the bottom of the ocean.

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CSB This Morning

CBS This Morning

Victor Vescovo completes deepest manned dive in history.

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NBCDFW

NBCDFW

Victor Vescovo joins the NBCDFW Team to discuss his record-breaking dives.

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TicToc Podcast

TicToc (Bloomberg)

A submarine’s light reveals a new species in an eerily beautiful scene that left a marine scientist “speechless” during a record sea descent for a Brit.

Podcast
Fox News

Fox News with Shepard Smith

Explorer Victor Vescovo sets new record for deepest submarine dive.

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MySA

Ocean Magazine

The Highs of the Deep.

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Superyacht Radio

Superyacht Radio

SuperYacht Radio is very proud to have spoken with Victor Vescovo and the 5 Deeps team throughout the greatest exploration of our time.

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Deep Dive 3

Indian Ocean

Java Trench. April 2019.

Live Science

Live Science

A Living ‘Balloon on a String’ Discovered in the Deepest Part of the Indian Ocean.

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Business Insider

Business Insider

An explorer took a $48 million submarine on 3 record-breaking dives to the deepest corners of the ocean — and discovered a mysterious new species

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For The Win! USA Today

For The Win – USA Today

American explorer Victor Vescovo completed an historic submersible dive to one of the most isolated places on Earth, and the expedition captured video of a new species that had researchers “speechless.”

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Phys.Org

Phys.org

Dr. Alan Jamieson, Chief Scientist on the Five Deeps Expedition and a senior lecturer at Newcastle University, UK, was part of the team to reach one of the most isolated points on the planet: the deepest point of the Java Trench in the Indian Ocean.

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Mirror.co.uk

mirror.co.uk

A submarine’s light reveals a new species in an eerily beautiful scene that left a marine scientist “speechless” during a record sea descent for a Brit.

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MySA

mySA

While speaking at the TED 2019 conference, Vescovo revealed that he discovered a mysterious new species on his third dive in the Indian Ocean.

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MySA

CNET

In their latest discovery, The Five Deeps Expedition witnesses a new species yet unseen by humans at the bottom of the Java Trench.

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Deep Dive 2

Southern Ocean

South Sandwich Trench. January – February 2019.

Superyacht News

A conversation with Victor Vescovo about his successful second dive and the Five Deeps Expedition as a whole

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USA Today

A recap of the first manned dive to the bottom of the South Sandwich Trench

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Deep Dive 1

Atlantic Ocean

Puerto Rico Trench. December 2018.

BBC News

A conversation with Victor Vescovo and David Lee prior to embarking on the first dive in the Five Deeps Expedition.

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Popular Science

An inside look at the first solo trip to the deepest point of the Atlantic.

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The Guardian

Wall Street trader reaches bottom of Atlantic in bid to conquer five oceans.

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NBC News

Victor Vescovo became the first person to reach the bottom of the Puerto Rico Trench in a solo submersible vessel.

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USA Today

American explorer Victor Vescovo became the first human to dive on a solo mission and reach the deepest point of the Atlantic Ocean.

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Trials & Testing Period

Bahamas

Mid-Late 2018

Reuters

For the first time, humans will visit the deepest part of each of the five oceans, plunging to the sea floor using a two-person craft designed to withstand the intense pressures more than 5.5 miles (9 km) below the surface.

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TC Palm – USA Today Network

The number of people who have visited the deepest place on planet Earth can be counted up on a single hand. Yet 12 have walked on the surface of the moon, over 200 have worked aboard the International Space Station and more than 4,000 have climbed to the top of Mount Everest, the highest place on Earth.

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Super Yacht News

Triton Submarines, the luxury submersibles manufacturer, has announced its latest venture, The Hadal Exploration System. This latest technology will enable submersibles to reach some of the deepest points in the ocean, as part of the ‘Five Deeps’ Expedition.

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Business Insider

(Reuters) For the first time, humans will visit the deepest part of each of the five oceans, plunging to the sea floor using a two-person craft designed to withstand the intense pressures more than 5.5 miles (9 km) below the surface.

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Business Insider

A $48 million submarine will dive to the deepest point in the ocean, where only 3 people have been before.

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Business Insider

Humans are about to touch the deepest corners of the ocean for the first time – an endeavour as dangerous as landing on the moon.

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Yachting Magazine

Triton Announces Mission to Visit the Deepest Spots in All Five Oceans with its 36000/2

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