The U.S. Navy will honor the pioneering deep-sea explorer Don Walsh by naming a future surveillance ship after him. Walsh, a graduate of San Diego State University, achieved a historic milestone in 1960 when he and Jacques Piccard descended to the Challenger Deep, the deepest point in the world's oceans, in the bathyscape Trieste.
Staff Lt. Don Walsh holds a small American flag and pilot Jacques Piccard a Swiss flag on the bottom of the Pacific Ocean on Jan. 23, 1960. (Life magazine)The Navy will name a future surveillance ship after Don Walsh , a San Diego State University graduate who, along with colleague Jacques Piccard, made the first dive to the bottom of the world’s deepest ocean in a fragile mini-sub. On Jan.
23, 1960, they squeezed into the bathyscape Trieste and slowly sank 35,797 feet into into Challenger Deep southwest of Guam in the Mariana Trench — a region some referred to as “inner space.” “The first penetration of the deepest parts of the ocean impressively demonstrates that the United States is in the forefront of oceanographic research,” President Dwight Eisenhower later said in awarding the explorers the Legion of Merit. The new vessel will be 356 feet long and will be used by the Military Sealift Command to conduct anti-submarine surveillance. Walsh was born in Berkeley in Nov. 2, 1931. He earned a bachelor’s degree in engineering at the U.S. Naval Academy, then a master’s degree in political science at SDSU. He also earned a doctorate in physical oceanography from Texas A&M University.
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