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unusual facts about Don Walsh


Walsh Spur

Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) for Commander Don Walsh, U.S. Navy, special assistant to the Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Research and Development, 1971-72.


Kaikō

On 23 January 1960, Don Walsh and Jacques Piccard were the first men to descend to the bottom of the Challenger Deep in the Trieste bathyscaphe.


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