WASHINGTON NAVY YARD – The Navy officer who took a manned submersible to the deepest part of the ocean in 1960 said it would have been impossible without the steady financial support by the Office of ...

WASHINGTON, DC - APRIL 15: Dr. Don Walsh, CAPT, USN (ret) smiles at the event. The Navy honors history-making undersea adventurer and scientist, Dr. Don Walsh, CAPT, USN (ret) at a 50th anniversary ...

Retired Capt. Don Walsh, Ph.D., who commanded the U.S. Navy’s bathyscaphe Trieste, discusses the dive to the deepest place on Earth, the Challenger Deep located at the southern end of the Mariana ...

In 1960, Navy lieutenant and submarine captain Don Walsh volunteered to join Swiss undersea explorer Jacques Piccard on a mission to the bottom of the ocean. As a co-pilot, Walsh held the record with ...

COQUILLE — Fifty years ago U.S. Navy Lt. Don Walsh and Swiss scientist Jacques Piccard climbed into the chamber of Bathyscaphe Trieste, a deep-sea research sub. The two men were about to make history.

Sixty miles southeast of Guam, the Navy’s bathyscaphe Trieste (TIME, Sept. 1, 1958) settled slowly below the rolling .sea. In the small, thick-shelled crew compartment were Lieut. Donald Walsh and ...

Almost a decade before man landed on the moon, two men went as far as they could go in the other direction. It was 1960 when Navy Lt. Don Walsh and his co-pilot took a nearly seven-mile plunge to the ...

While space is being charted by the hour, the ocean deeps that cover 70% of the earth are largely unexplored. Last week the Navy, speeding its researches below the sea (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) brought ...

British billionaire Sir Richard Branson announced a radical quest this week to explore the deepest points of the world’s five oceans. Key to achieving his dream is his company's Virgin Oceanic ...