The Five Deeps Expedition - A record breaking attempt to go to the deepest point in every ocean

The epic story of Victor Vescovo’s mission to be the first person to go to the deepest point in every ocean has been released on Discovery Plus 5 x 45 mins. Taking you to each ocean, on an expedition that needed firstly a submersible that could achieve that, that was yet to be invented.

Lucky enough to be part of the documentary team filming with Atlantic Productions for just over a year and a half we followed Victor around the worlds oceans as he endeavoured to be the first explorer to go to the deepest point of them all.
Working from scratch the challenges to overcome were huge, which is what makes this such a good story.

Victor had to put own his resources behind the development of a prototype submersible that would get him too, and back from, the bottom of each trench. The submersible needed to be able to do multiple dives, something never done before with any other deep diving submersible. Triton Submarines who developed and engineered the resulting Triton 36,000/2, had a huge team of experts on the job, but even at sea, they were constantly having to think on their feet to problem solve the inevitable problems constantly thrown up with the prototype. Since this was an expedition put together from scratch, it requiring a suitable vessel to base the expedition on, a full and capable crew to operate and deploy the submersible, with a new level of ability and certifiable capability of that sub.

Alongside the expedition Victor ran an enormous mapping and science programme, gifting the resulting data as open source resources.