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Don Walsh (November 2, 1931 – November 12, 2023) was an American oceanographer, U.S. Navy officer, and marine policy specialist. While aboard the bathyscaphe Trieste, he and Jacques Piccard made a record maximum descent in the Challenger Deep on January 23, 1960, to 35,813 feet (10,916 m).
Nov 18, 2023 · Nov. 18, 2023. Don Walsh, a pioneering U.S. Navy explorer who, along with the scientist Jacques Piccard, broke the record for human deep submergence by descending nearly seven miles to the...
Learn about Don Walsh, the first person to reach the deepest part of the ocean in 1960 and 2012. Find out how he became a pioneer of ocean exploration and a mentor to James Cameron.
Nov 19, 2023 · Don Walsh was a naval officer who volunteered to join the first mission to the bottom of the Mariana Trench in 1960. He died at 92, leaving a legacy of ocean exploration and advocacy.
Nov 13, 2023 · Don Walsh was one of the first to dive to the deepest depths of Earth’s oceans in 1960 and a pioneer of deep ocean operations. He died at 92, leaving a legacy of ocean advocacy, research and education.
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Retired Navy Capt. Don Walsh, an explorer who in 1960 was part of a two-man crew that made the first voyage to the deepest part of the ocean — to the “snuff-colored ooze” at the bottom of the Pacific’s Mariana Trench — has died. He was 92. Walsh died Nov. 12 at his home in Myrtle Point, Oregon, his daughter, Elizabeth Walsh, said Monday.
Don Walsh: The man who made the deepest ever dive. The remarkable story of Captain Don Walsh and his 11km journey to the bottom of the Mariana Trench.
