“If something goes wrong, you are not coming back,” Hamish Harding said in a 2021 interview. Read more at straitstimes.com.
acknowledged in a 2021 interview that he had taken on deep-sea missions in the past knowing that rescue would not be an option.
On the 2021 trip, Mr Harding, a 58-year-old British businessperson, and Mr Victor Vescovo, an American explorer, set a Guinness World Record for the longest time spent traversing the deepest part of the ocean on a single dive. Their 4-hour, 15-minute dive also set a record for farthest distance travelled along the deepest part of the ocean.
The vessel used for the Challenger Deep dive had a four-day oxygen reserve, as well as water and emergency rations, but was travelling so deep that no other sub “is capable of going down there to rescue you”, he said.
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