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CHASING FRONTIERS

‘People like to explore for scientific knowledge and find solutions for things like climate change, but I’m old school: I like to fill in blank spaces on the map. That’s the true north of exploration: to go and find things about places where human beings have never been.’
—Victor Vescovo

American yachtsman Victor Vescovo believes humankind would benefit from a greater understanding of what’s beneath the surface of the seas, and he’s willing to put his money—lots of it—where his mouth is. He’s also driven by the old Star Trek maxim: “To boldly go where no man has gone before.” And he’s built an underwater Enterprise in which to do it.

“People like to explore for scientific knowledge and find solutions for things like climate change, but I’m old school,” he says. “I like to fill in blank spaces on the map. That’s the true north of exploration: to go and find things about places where human beings have never been.” Vescovo knows of what he speaks. The Dallas-born Harvard Business School graduate is the first person in history to have been

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