Taking the hours-long journey to what is believed to be the deepest point mankind has visited in any ocean was a complicated one and for Victor Vescovo. It meant being constantly on the alert as he monitored his state of the art vessel. But when he reached 10,928 meters into the Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench of the Pacific Ocean, Vescovo took the advice of the man whose record he just broke, Oscar-winning director James Cameron, and took 15 uninterrupted minutes to take in the view and the enormity of the moment. Cameron told him he would be busy of course, but noted that "few if any people have seen what you've seen" so "deeply appreciate how fortunate you are to see i...
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