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 ...

CHALLENGER DEEP, MARIANA TRENCH, SOUTHEAST OF GUAM (WHTM) — The first dive to the deepest part of Earth’s oceans had its start with a record-breaking ascent into Earth’s atmosphere. On May 27, 1931, ...

The deep-diving record went back to France last week. At 10:09 one morning, on the Atlantic 160 miles off Dakar, the French navy's bathyscaphe FNRS 3* submerged. Three hours later she settled ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 100415-N-7676W-101 WASHINGTON, D.C. (April 15, 2010) Rear Adm. David Titley, Oceanographer of the Navy, congratulates retired Capt ...

Reservations: required by Monday. For more information, go to mts-sandiego.org. Online: For photos of the Trieste and other deep-sea vehicles, go to uniontrib.com ...

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 ...

Own this rare art print of the Bathyscaphe Trieste, signed by explorers Jacques Piccard and Don Walsh. Details below! Last year saw the passing of a legend, Jacques Piccard. Along with Don Walsh, ...

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 ...

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 ...