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Come and meet the world’s deepest diver Victor Vescovo EXPLORER, RETIRED naval officer and guest speaker at our 2019 AGS Gala Awards Night – Victor Vescovo – has broken the record for the world’s deepest submersible dive. On 28 April, Victor made his solo dive to reach the deepest point on Earth: Challenger Deep at the bottom of the Mariana Trench (10,928m) in the Pacific Ocean. This was the deepest dive by any human in history and is 16m deeper than any previous crewed dive. It took 3.5 hours to reach the record-breaking depth in the 4.6m-long, 3.7m-high submersible DSV Limiting Factor, built to withstand the huge pressure of the deep (about the weight of 50 jumbo jets). Victor spent four hours there – the longest time spent on the deepest part…

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Australian Geographic (Digital) - 1 Issue, July/August 2019

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