Congratulations to Triton Submarines on their latest extraordinary creation, the AVA (Advanced Versatile Acrylics). It has arc seating for -nine- persons to a depth of 660 feet (about 4x maximum scuba depth). Amazing. forbes.com/sites/katturne…

My home of Dallas, Texas experienced a total solar eclipse today: it was amazing. To get above the local clouds, I flew two friends above the layer to 7,500 feet. Enrique A. was able to take this amazing photo of the sun's corona. Henschel O. is in the back checking for traffic.

Please celebrate my friend & former shipmate Kate Wawatai🇳🇿 + marine geologist Heather Stewart 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 who just made a world-record dive into the Nova-Canton Trough (Central Pacific), a first for an all-female submersible team, with Kate as PILOT!!! 🌊🐙🐬🦑 cc Victor Vescovo

It's so wonderful to see the former DSV Limiting Factor, rechristened as Inkfish's Bakunawa, in new livery exploring the deeps of the Pacific Ocean. It was always the intention to get the sub to a great organization that could continue its amazing marine scientific research.

Congratulations to Blue Origin on their successful return to human spaceflight! New Shepard-25 safely completed its mission, carrying its great crew of Mason Angel, Sylvain Chiron, Ed Dwight, Ken Hess, Carol Schaller, and Gopi Thotakura above the Karman line into space.

Thank you to the Wall Street Journal and writer Kevin Koening for writing a positive article regarding the state of the submersible industry. Submersibles are essential for continued exploration and appreciation of the deeps. wsj.com/lifestyle/trav…

Thank you, John Oliver, for your wonderful, long-form piece covering Deep Sea Mining and why we should not move forward with it. The facts, combined with some appropriate, scathing wit, was welcome to the debate. (Episode 14, available this week on HBO Max)

In honor of my friends, Hamish Harding and Paul-Henri Nargeloet, who passed away last year while descending to the Titanic. May they inspire us all to explore and live our lives to the fullest. bbc.com/future/article…

My sincere congratulations to my colleague, mentor, and friend, Patrick Lahey, who has been awarded the *Order of Canada*. It is richly deserved as he has advanced human-occupied deep sea exploration more than anyone I know. Very well done, sir.

Thank you, GraphicNews, for this nice graphical summary of the Five Deeps Expedition (2018-2019). Nicely done. (Although we did also stop by the Titanic on the way to the Molloy Hole and then end in London at the Royal Geographic Society.) graphicnews.com/en/pages/41339…

One more scientific discovery that reinforces just how little we know of the deep sea floor. We need to study it more before we start strip-mining it for minerals that are used in yesterday's battery technologies. bbc.com/news/articles/…

Congratulations to my friend Garrett Madison who climbed K2 a few days ago - the second highest mountain in the world and also known as the "Savage Mountain" - for a *fourth* time. The extraordinary Mingma Gyabu Sherpa holds the record at five times. si.com/onsi/adventure…

Thank you, Omega (my sole sponsor) for your invitation to the recent Olympic Games. I partner with Omega due to their commitment to innovation which we jointly pursue, esp. in dive watches, and their dedication to precision timing, as shown at the Games. olympics.com/ioc/partners/o…

Mastering the Art of Risk in Extreme Climbing with @victorvescovo. Full episode on the Ted Hesser Podcast.

NS-26 is targeting liftoff from Launch Site One on Thursday, August 29. The launch window opens at 8:00 AM CDT / 13:00 UTC. Learn more about the symbolism embedded in the #NS26 mission patch: bit.ly/3ymB5Rk

Today I learned: The greatest bite strength of any animal in the world is in the ocean. Orca can bite at up to 19,000 pounds per square inch (psi). That is 3,000 psi *more* than the pressure at the deepest point in the ocean, Challenger Deep. Amazing.

A huge congratulations to Jared Isaacman and Sarah Gillis, and the rest of the Polaris Dawn crew. First commercial spacewalks. Amazing. Unfortunately, I can promise that this kind of "leaving the capsule" will not be happening soon at Challenger Deep, however . . .