Again, what's interesting is that their emotions are not what we might expect them to be. '”James Cameron on being seven miles down in a submersible in the Mariana Trench, 2012: "When I got to the bottom, I heard [my wife] Suzy’s voice. Alan Eustace on breaking the sound barrier in free-fall during his word-record, 128,000-ft. parachute jump, 2014: "The surprising thing is that we associate speed with noise. There’s always going to be new track records, but to break the 200-mph barrier first was pretty rewarding. Apart from the timekeepers -- who aren't talking to anybody else via radio -- I’m the only person who knows we've achieved it.

Source: Forbes April 07, 2017 16:41 UTC